Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CINEMA A steamy new Michael Douglas movie causes a ratings flap...
...face, with large eyes and a line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like Wee Pals and Luther...
...commercials, shown only in Washington at a cost of about $100,000, have reaped millions of dollars' worth of free publicity through network television and print-media reproductions that have accompanied news stories about the flap. That probably was the intent all along...
...spot on the Court opened when a near-senile Thurgood Marshall retired in late July. Bush ignored precedent and quickly picked Thomas even though some insiders (namely Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, who couldn't bark too loudly because he was still licking his wounds over the travel flap) doubted Thomas's judicial proficiency...
...Butterfield of the Times went awry, ironically, in reporting the Maitre plagiarism flap. After the story broke in the Boston Globe, he retold it in a next-day version, more elegantly written and with some fresh reporting. But Butterfield had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the quotes in the Globe. So instead of buying a videotape of Maitre's speech, as the article implied he had, he took the quicker route of plucking the words straight from the daily. He also borrowed the Globe's choices for side-by-side comparisons of passages by Maitre and PBS film...