Word: loyalism
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...show. Clarence Williams III (The Mod Squad's Linc) does a fine job, considering that he is saddled with the film's silliest part: Archie, the black servant who represents an amalgam of all the black people Wallace has ever known. And Mare Winningham is convincing as the loyal first wife Lurleen, who runs for Governor when the law prevents Wallace from succeeding himself...
...worried that publishers wanted something else--gossip, indiscretions, boasts. He knew so many important people, had handled so many famous cases, that such a book could have been a best seller. But he was steadfast. "I won't do a book like that," he would say. He was too loyal to his clients to tell tales, too genuinely humble to brag and too idealistic to believe celebrity defined a successful legal career...
They charge not one thin dime for the most gloriously twisted show in New York City, which stars a muttering reputed Mafia don in a wheelchair, his loyal brother the Catholic priest and ex-jailbird, and a pack of rats who talk about whacking nicknamed brethren like it's some kind of citywide croquet tournament. But it's O.K. if you can't get into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman...
...Japanese feminist who took the politics of the kitchen to the parliament floor; in Tokyo. As founder of the Housewives Association, Oku gave quality control new meaning by rallying against defective matches and other shoddy goods. Her exactitude, and her efforts on behalf of workingwomen, won her loyal support: in 1947 she was elected to the Diet...
...denying he was ever a part of it," says Carney, "thus laying it on Paxon." Paxon, meanwhile, has taken the fall while insisting his role in the plot has been grossly overstated. "The interesting dynamic to emerge here is the martyrdom of Bill Paxon," says Carney. "He was loyal to Gingrich for a long time, and by resigning quickly, he might escape the fallout from this. When the end does come for Gingrich, it could well be Paxon who's the rising star for the GOP leadership...