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...promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse yet, the spectacle of Clinton clinging so resolutely to his gay-rights pledge after breaking broader promises on taxes, the deficit and spending projects raised questions about...
Reba McEntire, 37, is part of country's continental drift. Shouldn't country music mean the whole country, after all? Like fellow Oklahoman Brooks, McEntire is making country music bigger, taking it higher. Her last album, 1991's mournful For My Broken Heart, sold more than 2 million copies, although one track dealt with euthanasia and another with a retirement home...
...today, we pledge that the era of deadlockand drift is over--a new season of Americanrenewal has begun...
When the characters drift down memory lane, the directors switch to a blue spotlight. This almost campy technique works because of its campiness: the audience laughs, but at the same time, the light focuses the audience on Steve's monologue. When he reminisces, the audience chuckles. But when he concludes, "Anticlimax--I like that word" and the light snaps off, the theme that links these characters' lives lingers...
Obviously there are still deep underlying trends, indicative of seismic- scale cultural drift. Assisted suicide, for example. Abandoning the elderly in their wheelchairs. Intergenerational downward mobility. But these are not the kind of things one would want to see spread around the world like Hula Hoops, stamped MADE IN THE U.S.A. The same goes for the cannibalism trend as promoted by Anthony Hopkins, not to mention Studs-like game shows, in which attractive young people make witty remarks about body parts...