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Committee members peppered Schwarzkopf and other witnesses with questions that seemed designed to depict gays as a greater risk to "unit cohesion" than women and blacks, two other groups that initially met with resistance before being successfully integrated into the military. When officers responded with sweeping generalizations that painted homosexuals as HIV infected, flamboyant and sexually predatory, they were not pressed for specifics...
Movies coming out of Hollywood have become more and more violent in recent years. Action films vie for the most gross, realistic scenes possible. Modern special effects allow them to rise above normal everyday death and destruction and depict truly horrific scenes. Think how disappointed Schwarzenegger fans would be if there were only typical shootings in his next movie...
...shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby details of an industry, this time home appliances. The liveliest scenes depict Thatcher's bickering colleagues; the folkways and preening of high financiers are observed with utter lack...
...McCombe has emerged at the center of the dispute over the guards' charges. While some depict him a self-promoter who causes division in the unit, others say he is the only union steward whom they trust to represent them in grievance proceedings when they are disciplined
...easy it is to depict baseball as a simpleminded rogues' gallery of ego- driven owners and selfish superstars. In fact, Bonds' salary is not out of whack, especially compared with that of a journeyman shortstop like Spike Owen (lifetime batting average .243), who signed a three-year, $7 million contract with the Yankees...