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...economic-recovery program, the one mentioned most often is a tax cut for middle-income Americans. For conservative Georgians, he unveiled a new promise: "insisting that those on welfare move into the workplace." His commercials make good use of Clinton's rapport with the camera. His media adviser, Frank Greer, manages to blend the candidate's persona and platform into a seamless series of spots...
...Brookfield School in 1870 as a young Latin teacher. Over his 58-year tenure at Brookfield, Chipping, endearingly called "Chips," rises to become the heart and soul of the venerable institution. On a hiking trip in Switzerland, Chipping meets and subsequently falls in love with Katherine Bridges (Greer Garson), Katherine adds the emotion and romance that has been missing in Chips' life...
...Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star in a 1942 classic, portraying the heroic British effort in World War II. The film features a model family in which the father, mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...
...book is about many things -- paganism, pop culture, androgyny, sexual conflicts -- but what has drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming "a drone in three years," sated with early success. Susan Sontag is another victim of celebrity. Princeton feminist Diana Fuss's output is "just junk -- appalling...
Haircuts are the least of Greer's problems as Dubuque wrestles with a plan to force the town out of its time warp by aggressively recruiting minorities. During the 1940s and 1950s police advised blacks who stepped off the train to move on to the next town. Though the city's racist past is not unusual, its state of preservation is remarkable. "I was refused housing, insurance, you name it," says Ruby Sutton, an African American who moved to Dubuque from Chicago in 1962 when her husband was transferred by the railroads. "At least down South they were brutally honest...