Word: oneness
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...Sisyphean walk across America to promote campaign-finance reform. Her lungs hurt badly, and her knees hurt worse, but after 3,200 miles, Doris was greeted in Washington by the cheers of thousands of supporters. Her bill passed. When she was 94, Doris unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for one of New Hampshire's Senate seats. I made a documentary about her hardscrabble run against incumbent Judd Gregg. Fueled by bacon, catnaps and a deep belief that "democracy is not something you have--it's something you do," Doris campaigned tirelessly. Filming her was the most exhausting thing...
...One night in 1995, I was standing in a bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., when a Moore image rooted me to the floor--and launched a book. I eventually searched out the shooter, and we became friends. He was an unassuming man with a softly charged voice, who probably didn't weigh 140 lb. But even when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself...
...deep distrust of government -- Miller does not spend her weekends running around in camouflage, shooting at imagined enemies. Nor does she buy into every conspiracy theory that crackles along the patriot grapevine, like last week's alert that the Oklahoma catastrophe-which "patriots" suspect involved three bombs, not one-was a government plot to enable President Clinton to proclaim martial law and divert attention from forthcoming hearings on the Whitewater financial scandal. Indeed, Miller's attitude toward the Oklahoma City culprits -- "I say hang 'em" -- sounded much like the President...
...understand the social currents that could wash a homegrown terrorist up to the front doors of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, they are taking a second look at people like Miller. It's not because Miller shows any signs of violent tendencies herself, but because she is one of the disseminators of a virulent antigovernment philosophy that may have helped plant thoughts of insurrection in someone else's head. Miller's own first thought upon hearing of the bombing was, "Oh, my gosh, I hope some idiot calling himself a patriot didn't do this." She admits that...
...many people have reached that breaking point with their Federal Government-and are they acting alone or together? If you count just the people who are arming themselves against the day when U.N. tanks roll through the heartland to establish the one-world order, estimates range only as high as 100,000. But if you include all the people in as many as 40 states who respond to the patriot rhetoric about a sinister, out-of-control federal bureaucracy -- all the ranchers fed up with land- and water-use policies, all the loggers who feel besieged by environmentalists...