Word: heflinism
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...down the throats of the people." Sessions didn't help matters by trying to make the case that in some circumstances, those organizations could indeed be seen as un-American, and the Republican-controlled committee voted 8-10 against him. The deciding vote was cast by Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, whose seat both in the Senate and on the committee Sessions would take a decade later. (A day-by-day look at Obama's first 100 days...
...disused movie form, and part of this film's appeal lies simply in returning us to the thrilling days of yesteryear, to the beauty of spare narrative played out in a stark landscape. 3:10 is, of course, a remake of the 1958 movie that starred Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, which was, in my opinion, not as good as a lot of people thought, mostly because the mumbly Ford could only play one note at a time, which meant he erred more toward likeability than toward menace. That's not a problem for Crowe, an actor with a teasing...
...staged a friendly takeover of the local Democratic Party, running a thorough, well-researched campaign in 2000 and zealously filling constituents' potholes ever since. New York's shrunken fortunes make it unthreatening to the rest of the country. The "lawless hoodlums" of Tammany Hall, as Senator Thomas Heflin of Alabama once called them, no longer even exist. New York City's cleaner, safer streets make it positively attractive. It is not a feral haven of drug addicts and serial killers but a place to take the family. In that respect, mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg are reaping what they have sown...
...iconic images of the 20th century; in Montrose, N.Y. After serving as a combat photographer during World War II, Aarons determined to devote the rest of his career to chronicling, in his words, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Among the best-known images: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing conspiratorially in a 1957 photo called The Kings of Hollywood, left, which Smithsonian magazine called the "Mount Rushmore of stardom...
...lost all vehicle data," says Heflin. "That's when we began to know that...