Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that were nothing compared with the belly laughs I experienced when Connerly chose Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to announce the creation of a new organization to take his anti-affirmative-action show on the road--in honor of the slain civil rights leader. "Dr. King personifies the quest for a color-blind society," Connerly explains, "and I felt that it would be a great symbol to give birth to an organization that wants the nation to resume that journey on the birthday of the man who symbolizes it." Connerly claims he has the support...
...goes to Italy to begin her quest to "see life," but through the plotting of a duplicitous friend, Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey), gets ensnared by a cold-hearted aesthete and fortune-hunter, Gilber Osmond (John Malkovich). Their marriage quickly sours, and tensions between them rise to a crisis. First, Lord Warburton, Isabel's old suitor, reappears and begins to pay court to Pansy, Osmond's lovely but completely subjugated daughter. Later, Isabel learns that her cousin Ralph is dying...
...long the source of American onscreen drama, Los Angeles has lately become the stage for the nation's most gripping real-life dramas as well. The sort of narratives that Hollywood studios, in their quest for blockbuster profits, have almost abandoned--complex moral tales of actual human beings facing the ultimate issues of love and loss, rage and separation--have moved from the sound stages onto the streets. Beginning with the taped beating of Rodney King in 1991 (by far the most important footage to come out of L.A.'s image factory that year) and continuing through the O.J. Simpson...
PHOENIX: Banned for life from competing on the U.S. national team, Tonya Harding has set on a quest to find a new country -- any country -- that will let her skate for them in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Harding's representative, David Hans Schmidt, has faxed a number of foreign media outlets expressing her interest in joining their national teams. One fax, pitching the "friendly Norwegians," made a case for Harding that touched on her genetics as well as her skating ability. "After all, Tonya (with her blonde hair) looks like you people," it said. Schmidt said Sweden...
...into the World Series and never got there," said Joe Torre, who knows a bit about the subject. "One of the sadnesses of winning it all last year was that Donnie wasn't with us." Don Mattingly's locker was left empty during the Yankees' successful 1996 quest. It should stay that way until they win another...