Word: oklahomas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, the conservatives are also stuck with their own problem of violence in the media -- and it's not just Schwarzenegger's body counts. "Jackbooted thugs,'' the description of federal law-enforcement agents in a fund-raising letter from the National Rifle Association, is a kind of cop-killer lyric in itself. So is "aim at the head" -- radio talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy's suggestion for greeting federal law-enforcement agents at your door...
Republicans who talk about the real-life consequences of pop-culture vulgarity still scream at the suggestion of any link between talk-show belligerence and Oklahoma City. Americans aren't so sure. In the TIME poll, 52% of those questioned said they believed that strong antigovernment rhetoric inspires people to violence. And a lot of Americans are already suspicious of any attempt to use the culture issue as a way to evade discussion of everything else that contributes to the fraying of American life, from threadbare schools to the flood of guns. In the TIME poll, 55% of those questioned...
Another vulture has descended on Oklahoma City to profit from the tragedies of grief-stricken people there. Johnnie Cochran Jr. has filed a class action against a Texas company that made the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22]. That's like blaming knife sellers for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Jean Wilson Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...OKLAHOMA BOMBING CASE
Carter was born in Peoria, Ill, and "moved around a lot for no reason. My mom was not into setting down." Most of Carter's childhood was spent in Burlington, lowa ("a town nobody's heard of I'm sure") but lived all over Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas, Texas at various points. Even Carter says she isn't really sure why her mother was always on the move. "Ask her," she says. "I've always woundered. She had wanderlust. She was young." Tracey's mother confirms Tracey's suggestion. "My biggest amibition in life was to travel. I had Tracey before...