Word: lany
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort. "It threatens rigidity," says Lani Kaahumanu, a bisexual activist in San Francisco. "It threatens both sides of the framework." Bisexuals often inspire nervousness, distaste and hostility in both straights and gays and are all but ignored by scholars...
...from Justice John Paul Stevens, who pointed out that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had been adopted specifically because "recalcitrant white majorities could be expected to devise new stratagems to maintain their political power if not closely scrutinized." The court's narrow interpretation of the law, says Lani Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school, could presage "a very anemic view of political participation in which blacks can vote and even win office, but they can't govern...
...Boone and Anita Bryant come through, singing inspirational songs and uttering fatuities for Moore's camera. Game-show host (and Flint native) Bob Eubanks does his weary routine and very possibly kills what is left of a fringe career by telling two disgusting jokes to the inquiring reporter. Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, a Miss Michigan who is soon to be Miss America, flashes false smiles and desperately changes the subject when Moore asks her to comment on local conditions. Meantime, the more substantial citizenry gets behind new construction that is supposed to revitalize Flint -- a Hyatt Regency, a mall...