Word: flags
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most of whom had not seen the film. I realized at the time it didn't matter whether they had seen it. This was not a debate about the spiritual values of Last Temptation; this was a fight about who controls the culture. Last Temptation, like other cultural totems-flag burning, Robert Mapplethorpe, gun control, nea, abortion-had become a symbol of cultural hegemony...
...nothing could stop the Crimson's tide. Goetze took the proverbial checkerd flag, crossing the tape in 17:58--the best crimson time ever in the three years that the course has been...
Bragg says he enjoyed Trinity, despiteoccasionally feeling like teachers asked him to bethe "flag-bearer" for his race in a discussion.Denise Philpotts, the school's coordinator ofmulticultural affairs, says she noticed Bragg'sself-confidence even in his overwhelmingly whiteelementary school classes...
...Clinton Administration came out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban desecration of the flag, arguing that the offense caused by such an infrequent event does not justify amending the Bill of Rights. Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel today that tampering with the Constitution over the issue was unwise "in the absence of any meaningful evidence that the flag is in danger of losing its symbolic value." But Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said a 1989 Supreme Court decision knocking down state anti-desecration laws "has given us no choice...
...youngest daughters, Elisheba, 3, and Rachel, 13, who often play in the park across the street. His oldest daughter, Sara, 19, who works as a waitress, has rented a house up the street. On some days, Weaver sits and sips coffee from a mug emblazoned with the German flag. When visitors drop by, he mixes White Russians in the kitchen. Outside on the small lawn, a jumble of bicycles lies scattered across the sidewalk. A battered white gas guzzler hunkers in the driveway. He says he is not working. Not doing much. Just waiting...