Word: ellens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today the networks are scheduling either all-white shows (the sitcoms Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen and Mad About You are set in urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
...second term, the Clinton campaign must get women to the polls. And the key to doing that may be Ellen Malcolm. "EMILY's List has become the entrepreneurial life-force of the Democratic Party," says the blunt, sometimes blustery Malcolm, 49. Once a staff member in Jimmy Carter's White House, she founded EMILY--short for "Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise)"--in 1985 because she was disgusted by how few women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give...
...panel was composed of journalists E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post, Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe and Editor in Chief and Publisher of The Weekly Standard William Kristol. All gave a generally favorable review of the new book...
...Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick asked how the U.C. could claim to be representative when the four members presenting the memo were all white males, according to U.C. President Robert M. Hyman...
...This was the most fun I've had since I started [playing hockey]," co-captain Ellen Frump said. "It was a little disappointing, but overall I had a great time...