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Those fence sitters have been the targets of one of the most aggressive congressional lobbying drives in recent memory. "I've never seen this intensity for a campaign before," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the umbrella organization coordinating the anti-Bork juggernaut. "People are looking at this as all our previous battles wrapped into one." Says Tom Korologos, a noted Republican lobbyist retained by the White House to fight for Bork: "Rarely have I seen both left and right so vehement in their zeal...
...centennial of Weston's birth this year is being marked by three museum shows. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., will exhibit 45 of his pictures later this month. Sixty are going up in December at the Art Institute of Chicago. But the real Weston juggernaut opened earlier this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: a sweeping retrospective of 237 prints. Organized by the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography and selected by Beaumont Newhall, the gray eminence of photo history, the exhibition will run in San Francisco through Feb. 15, then travel...
...perpetual dieting, in our increasingly frequent trips to the doctors and in the rising costs of medical care. Everyone is taking up jogging, aerobics and isometrics. An estimated 57 million Americans participate regularly in physical fitness programs and the sporting goods industry is a $12.3 billion per year economic juggernaut...
Avildsen doesn't care about Stallone's jingo-juggernaut. "I felt the character wasn't developed much more," he says of subsequent Rockys. In Avildsen's two Karate Kid pictures, the characters have stayed closer to the earth, closer to the turf Avildsen understands. Cinematic integrity? "I think your integrity has a direct link to your check book," Avildsen says...
While the Statue of Liberty, whose 100th anniversary celebration begins today, represents a promise to America's immigrants, Harvard in many ways is the fulfillment of that dream. But that success can also mean the loss of an identity at the hands of Harvard, America's juggernaut of respectable heritage...