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...test; displaying the Ten Commandments on public property did not. That kind of approach is also evident in her handling of affirmative action. O'Connor was as allergic to quotas as any true conservative, but she found it acceptable for government to consider race as one of many factors in making decisions. In the late 1980s she wrote an opinion striking down a law in Richmond, Va., that tried to boost the minuscule percentage of city contracts going to minority-owned firms. And in the '90s, O'Connor voted against redrawing the lines of congressional districts to benefit minorities...
...muddy color palette, the film looks as if it has been painted on velvet. But the plot is pure wish fulfillment. DJay gets transformed from no-gooder to go-getter by beautiful music (when he's moved to tears by a church choir). Then there's the Rocky factor. That movie, about a bum turned hero, was a happy pill after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. Brewer sees his film as a return to workaday humanity. "We're in a time of tremendous problems in the world, and we've needed to escape to fantasy," he says. "Maybe...
...deciding factor undoubtedly will be the further success, or lack of it, of the reforms. Deng's formula for overcoming opposition is a simple one: leave the critics alone and let them see for themselves that the system works and that they would be better off if they went along. "We will let practice dissipate their worries and misgivings," he says...
...female writer, two female stars and a female executive, Barbara Boyle, who helped us get the go-ahead. If the film had bombed, it would have presented a broad target. Failure is a luxury not yet afforded to women." But Susan succeeded, and its momentum helped reduce the risk factor for hiring first-time women directors. Randa Haines, 41, won an Emmy for the TV movie Something About Amelia, but was untested in feature films until she was tapped to direct Children of a Lesser God, starring William Hurt. "It's a business of the strong male directorial voice," Haines...
Back in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin, Stumpf was already examining precisely the way bodies and furniture get along. The new name for his human-factor investigations, ergonomics, was not yet current, but Stumpf made charts, diagrams and, eventually, time-lapse films, becoming a sort of Muybridge of the 9-to-5 realm. In the mid-'70s at Herman Miller, he began turning that research into drawings. The Ergon is a descendant of Eames' designs, an out-of-sequence missing link between the lucid but barebones molded-plywood chair (1946) and the voluptuous, baroque lounge chair (1956) so beloved...