Word: gooders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really think that the Clinton administration sees the power of the youth vote," said James A. Harmon '93-94, president of College Democrats of America. "If Americans under 29 hadn't voted for Clinton he would have lost. It's not just a do-gooder thing. It's a smart thing...
...corrupting PACS and perks. A pity that director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) lacks the daredevil touch for a blend of 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live. Murphy still has his supernova smile and a gift for acute accents -- Chinese, Yiddish, white-bread, soul-food -- but this frail, do-gooder comedy seems a holding action until Fast Eddie regains his stride...
Times, leaders and heroes change. John F. Kennedy was a fan of superspy James Bond's savoir faire and flashy victories over cold war bad guys. It seems somehow fitting that Bill Clinton's favorite literary do-gooder is Easy Rawlins, a savvy, down-to-earth African-American private eye based in Los Angeles. In WHITE BUTTERFLY (Norton; $19.95), the third book in the Rawlins series, good-time girls, corrupt politicians, trigger-happy psychopaths and other crime-novel fixtures are all in place. But Walter Mosley's writing hums with the particular rhythms and blues of the black American experience...
...third of seven children of actress Maureen O'Sullivan (who played an unflattering version of herself in Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) and director John Farrow (whose films include Sorority House, Full Confession, Married and in Love and Easy Come, Easy Go). As a child Mia had do-gooder dreams of becoming a Schweitzer-like doctor in the tropics; each Christmas she staged a pageant and sent the proceeds to the March of Dimes. The actress scored hits as a moody teen on TV's Peyton Place and a wife giving birth to the devil's son in Rosemary...
...this brisk, buoyant movie gets its emotional weight from an entirely other conflict: the tangle of opposites between -- and within -- two credible people. Wealthy orphan Bruce Wayne (Keaton again) -- the "trust-fund goody- goody," as Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) calls him -- is also Batman, a trussed-up do-gooder who cannot reveal his identity. Selina Kyle, the single woman with a lousy love life, is also the vengeful kitten with a whip: "I am - Catwoman! Hear me roar!" Bruce and Selina are drawn to each other's worldly wise grace and the hint of hidden wounds. They are attracted...