Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make decisions about people's lives. What's the power here, except the power to help...
...witch-hunt is required to make scoundrels of the student heroes, then a campaign of glorification is required to make heroes of the army scoundrels. Over and over, Chinese television replays shots of soldiers cleaning the streets and distributing food supplies. China's leaders troop through the hospitals visiting wounded soldiers. "You have done an excellent job," an official tells troops in Beijing...
...last week's North Carolina case, a former teller at a Winston-Salem credit union sought to use a Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
...wielding his clout and testing his fans' expectations. In his next movie, Revenge, he plays an unlikable cuckolder. Last week he began scouting locations for Dances with Wolves, a drama about the Sioux nation, in which he will star and make his debut as a director. Still, it makes him itch that his recent roles have earned him a Hunk-of-the-Month label. "I have the same problem with stardom that I have with royalty," he says. "They're judged not by the quality of their ideas but by their birthright. I didn...
...from the beginning," says J.J. Harris, his agent from 1984 until this year. "I'm sure he's had it forever. He's a bigger-than-life person whose presence fills a room, though not in an ostentatious way." Yet he was often willing to torpedo his career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even...