Word: phil
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...question about supporting the real Texan is really not a question. Texas' Republican Senator Phil Gram predicted that Texans will support a Texan president instead of a Texan Vice-President...
...EMPIRE OF REASON (PBS, July 13, 10 p.m. on most stations). The big guns of TV news report on the battle to ratify the Constitution as if it were a breaking story. Walter Cronkite anchors for the "Continental Television Network," and William F. Buckley Jr. and Phil Donahue do their thing...
While withholding their cooperation from investigators with the claim that a white-run system will not accord justice to blacks, the trio of advisers has manipulated the case into a long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...
...contest. Even Tracy Chapman, 24, a singer-songwriter out of Boston, sounds like a flashback. Her warmly praised debut album resounds with high purpose, in marked contrast to the growing legions of pube rockers, but to anyone who actually made it through the '60s, Chapman writes protest just like Phil Ochs and sounds just like Odetta out for a ride in a convertible...
...some Europeans -- not just the jet-set crowd, mind you -- are dropping in on New York City just for a weekend, blitzing the stores along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and queuing up for Broadway shows. "We've been to Majorca, Crete and Yugoslavia," says one of the whirlwind invaders, Phil Stevens, 43, a carpet fitter from Britain. "But," he crows, "America is so cheap this year...