Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humanely: He would try to dissuade her but would stand by her, regardless of the decision, which would ultimately be hers. That sounded too close for comfort to the idea that each woman should have the final say, and thus came close to contradicting the Republican position that would outlaw abortion...
...Bush then dropped a bombshell of her own. The decision to have an abortion, she said, is a "personal choice, personal thing." The day before, the President had said he would support a granddaughter who decided to terminate a pregnancy -- although his own party is trying to outlaw the procedure unless the mother's life is endangered. Mrs. Bush went well beyond that, saying all discussion of abortion should be removed from the political arena. "The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms at conventions . . . You can argue yourself blue in the face...
...California pretty,/ I can't survive the Great White Way," sings WAYLON JENNINGS in Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn...
...happen almost anywhere -- on moonlit beaches, in empty warehouses and in open fields -- thanks to an underground networking system < and mobile electric generators that use telephones, flyers and maps to get the word out with as little as 24 hours' notice. Like the hit-and-run "outlaw" parties that took place in Los Angeles and New York during the mid-'80s, raves are often illegal affairs that operate one step ahead of the authorities...
Will Munny (Eastwood) is a gunfighter trying to escape the lure of notoriety. He's certainly lost the hang of it after years in retirement. He can't shoot straight or stay on a horse. And he is eager to dispel anyone's illusions of outlaw grandeur. In his prime he killed women and children; hell, he "killed just about everything that walks and crawls." And was he ever scared? "I can't remember. I was drunk most of the time...