Word: phillipics
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...indirect way, Phillip Reisterer and Tom Kwidzinski have been working hard to pass Bill Clinton's health-care plan. The two Chicago men were campaigning last week for Dan Rostenkowski in the Democratic primary next Tuesday in the state's Fifth Congressional District. At one house, a portly woman in a Chicago Bears sweatshirt answered the door. "You'll read some stuff in the papers," said Kwidzinski. "Keep an open mind. Rostenkowski brings a lot to Chicago." She nodded. Upstairs a door opened, and her father, who will be casting an absentee ballot because of some amputated toes, bellowed...
...finally, weren't Paglia's 15 minutes up about 12 minutes ago? Phillip Brian Harper Assistant Professor, English and Afro-American Studies. Jeffrey Masten Assistant Professor, English...
...students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...
...warped Shane. In that 1953 film, mysterious gunslinger Alan Ladd agrees to protect a homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people you don't like. It's the blind leading the blind: Butch is trying...
...explain most of his antisocial excesses. Seems his mother was a prostitute and his dad "beat the hell out of anything he ever came across, or screwed, or fathered." As abused children become abusive adults, so poorly parented Butch turns into a lame excuse for a father to Phillip. But the boy is ready to learn from, idolize -- and finally stand up to -- the first man who has taken a paternal interest...