Word: pattern
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...complex juncture in foreign affairs. In fact, Baker did not have his eye on the mounting dangers in the Persian Gulf because he was preoccupied with the collapse of the Soviet empire and German unification. Nonetheless, Baker's tendency to dissociate himself from policies that fare poorly is a pattern that increasingly disturbs less agile associates. "When it hits the fan," said a Foggy Bottom veteran, "he's in the shower...
Some see in this a pattern of demagogy of the sort Louisiana has specialized in from Huey Long's time to that of Edwin Edwards. But Huey Long did not claim, as Duke does, to be a serious author writing on the environment and other subjects -- even, once, a sex manual -- under various pseudonyms. Ben C. Toledano, one of the founders of modern Republicanism in Louisiana, sees nothing of Huey in Duke. "My family has lived in New Orleans for 265 years -- a long time for Americans, and I don't see anything Southern in Duke. You drop...
...incidence of adultery laws, as well as statutes prohibiting fornication (two unmarried people having sex), traces a hig-gledy-piggledy pattern across the national map. Adultery is still illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Catholic priests who were charged in the mid-'80s with sexually abusing young boys in Louisiana. Then there was this year's scandal at New York City's Covenant House, culminating in a commissioned report stating that Father Bruce Ritter, founder of the renowned shelter for runaways, had a pattern of improper sexual conduct with youths going back to 1970. Last month came the news that Atlanta's Archbishop Eugene Marino and one of his priests had resigned because both men had been intimate with the same 27-year-old female parishioner...
...says Universal president Tom Pollack, "as we did with Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ." But if Henry & June loses its Oct. 3 appeal to the rating board, Kaufman has only two options: cut the film to the censors' pattern or take his movie to an independent distributor...