Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone who doubts that words could have such a large impact, one need only look at the recent torching of African-American churches in the Southern and border states. This trend started about the same time as some members of the far right conservatives, characterized by Pat Buchanan, made a series of speeches determined to capture the vote of the "angry white male." Of course, they resorted to negative campaigning, only this time most of the electorate--everyone except the "angry white male"--was their target. This strategy succeeded only too well...
...PAT DAWSON arrived in the little town of Jordan, Montana, to cover the confrontation between the FBI and the Freemen only to find that news crews and law officers had taken all the hotel rooms. "So I flopped my sleeping bag in an old school bus in the barn on my cousin John Cooley's ranch," says Dawson, a native Montanan who has reported from the West for TIME for 15 years. He notes that the state has a "colorful and maybe not always noble history of vigilante movements." And although Dawson was surprised by "the accumulated anger and tunnel...
...THERE WERE DEBATES about the quality of feature films in this year's Academy Award race. Really now, can anyone but Mel Gibson and Pat Buchanan have thought Braveheart the very best movie of 1995? But on one matter, few of the cognoscenti would argue. The freshest, most beguiling film to win an Oscar last week was an epic you may have never heard of: A Close Shave, Nick Park's stop-motion, comedy-thriller mini-masterpiece about a dog named Gromit and his pet Englishman, Wallace...
...SICK OF READING ABOUT WHITEWAter. Every report I've seen, including this story, says nothing illegal was done. This is just a Republican witch-hunt. Enough! PAT MARSHALL Berwyn, Illinois...
...Pat might have attributed the messy room to the unfocused genius brimming over with energy. Rich might have thought of his silent dinners as brilliant meditations. Dave certainly would have published his affiliation with a Nobel Prize winner, and certainly the friendship implied therein...