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...speech, Trueba equated Billy Wilder with God, and it is in this scene that Wilder's influence comes through most strongly. In drag, Sanz bears a striking resemblance to Tony Curtis in Wilder's "Some Like It Hot," and the whole carnival sequence in "Belle Epoque" smacks of the landmark 1959 film...
...likely. Whatever his faults, Hosokawa, not a particularly corrupt figure in Japanese public life, was responsible for passage of a landmark political- reform bill. Most of the senior politicians now jockeying for his job came of age in the same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 37 years until displaced by Hosokawa's government, lost two of its last 10 Prime Ministers to scandal. In fact, some analysts think Hosokawa, because of his popularity, could have beaten back the attempts to unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does...
...Surgeon General Luther Terry in 1964 issued his landmark report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, and a stream of reforms soon followed. In 1966 cigarette makers were forced to put labels on their packages warning consumers about the health risks of smoking. In 1971 cigarette ads were barred from TV and radio. The medical evidence against smoking, meanwhile, continued to mount; cigarettes were linked to heart disease, emphysema and low-birth- weight babies. In 1986, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released one of the first widely publicized reports on the detrimental effects of passive smoke, the issue shifted...
Justice Harry Blackmun, the U.S. Supreme Court's senior Justice and the author of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, announced his intention to step down. During his 24 years on the high bench, the 85-year-old Justice -- chosen by Richard Nixon in 1970 -- underwent a highly public evolution from conservative to liberal jurist, becoming one of the court's most passionate defenders of constitutional liberties for ordinary citizens. Retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell was reported to be near the top of the Clinton list of possible replacements...
Triantafillou recently won a landmark court case where the adoptive gay parents she represented were granted many of the rights afforded heterosexual parents...