Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going on here? A lost-boy trend? A commercial coincidence, based on such earlier successes with this theme as the Home Alone pictures, Terminator 2 and most of Steven Spielberg's oeuvre? An attempt by sly Hollywood to suggest that the family values it has but recently renewed its oath to uphold and defend are actually missing in much of America? Or -- worst-case scenario -- an effort to subvert those values right in the middle of movies that are marketed and rated as family entertainment...
...populace that has nearly ODed on O.J., the hearings that begin this week may well prove disappointing. Yes, there will be witnesses -- some from the White House -- answering questions under oath. But instead of bloody gloves and thumps in the night, their testimony will focus on when and what Treasury Department higher-ups learned about contacts between their underlings and White House aides concerning a Resolution Trust Corporation recommendation that the Justice Department consider . . . Are you still there...
...time when Charles' judgment is being questioned, why announce a willingness to tinker with the constitution, the unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will...
...managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year tradition. He found it "absurd" that a royal cannot marry a Catholic. He may have a point, but with Parker Bowles in the background, he was foolhardy...
Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader of his ancestral Palestinian homeland. In Jericho, Arafat led12 members of the Palestine National Authority in the oath of office for the self-rule government, despite complaints that Israeli officials had allowed Jewish militants to block thousands of Palestinians from the modest ceremony. Next stop for Arafat: Paris, where he'll receive a U.N. Peace Prize with Israeli leaders Wednesday. He's likely to use the platform to wangle slow-coming international financial...