Word: deweyitis
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...waited for years for the great day when the country would come to its senses and turn the Democrats out. [T]his week the day seemed surely at hand." --Nov. 1, 1948, from the last pre-Election Day issue covering the campaign between Harry S Truman and Thomas Dewey...
...this gallery, add two miscreants from films opening this month: The Gingerbread Man's Dixon Doss, a wily Georgia eccentric who is sort of Boo Radley grown old and gone wrong; and, more important, E.F. ("Sonny") Dewey. E.F. is the Texas preacher in The Apostle, a complex, cantankerous drama that Duvall wrote, directed, stars in and--after all the studios turned down the $5 million project--paid for. This renegade Pentecostalist has the spiel and showmanship to fill a tent or a temple; when E.F. talks, people listen. "I'm a genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this...
...Brett Dewey, a Los Angeles television writer, recalls the moment he decided to go electric. "I see the mountains from my office window for a third of the year," he says. "The other two-thirds of the year, they vanish behind the smog." Last June he thought of the $75 a month in gas he could save by trading his 15-m.p.g. Toyota 4Runner for an EV1. "While I was debating," he recalls, "I looked out my window and the mountains were gone." Likewise, actors Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, replaced their Ford Explorer...
...time really be divided into neatly defined decades? More likely it is for historical neatness's sake that we stuff trends into boxes, like books shelved by the Dewey decimal system, so that we can comprehend the world and categorize its contents. And yet Dylan's career divides easily into decades: the folk ingenue of the '60s, fresh-faced from Hibbing, Minn., drawing from Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Woody Guthrie, busting with old blues, freshly learned folk songs and rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel...
...excited to work with students here," said John L. Giesser, who will use his experience as vice president of Dewey Square Group, a national grassroots organization, to teach a session on political organizing...