Word: ran
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Dennis Potter lived on TV. He was a dramatist, not an actor, yet viewers in his native England and abroad knew Potter's life story through his teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic...
...want to reform welfare; they want to abolish it. Only drastic measures, they argue, will break the cycle of dependency that has destroyed so many families. To liberals, such a policy is cruel and racist, and it punishes children for their parents' behavior. When the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an editorial suggesting that women on welfare be implanted with the contraceptive Norplant -- a sort of chemical family cap -- the newspaper was fiercely attacked, even by some of its own staffers, for advocating genocide. "Who will put the limit on the number of kids a family should have?" asks Buffy Boesen...
...fractious. But for sheer, lip-smacking fun, there's still nothing that can beat Louisiana's. For nearly a quarter-century, Edwin W. Edwards has been much of the reason why. In four terms as Governor, Edwards, who was tried twice for fraud and racketeering but never convicted, who ran up huge gambling debts while Governor and who squired so many young women while still in his first marriage that he was dubbed "the Silver Zipper," has made Baton Rouge the undisputed capital of rascally political folklore...
...other hand, have not always been so friendly. In 1985, while covering defense for the Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram, he won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering helicopter design flaws that had been ignored for more than a decade, resulting in the death of some 250 soldiers. His picture ran in TIME: "It was a high point for my parents...
...Thompson has interviewed cadets at West Point, traveled with Defense Secretary William Perry on a weeklong tour through four of the republics of the former Soviet Union and interviewed dozens of military families for an investigative report on the epidemic of domestic violence in the services. The story, which ran three weeks ago, prompted Maine Senator William Cohen to request that the Pentagon report back to the Senate on its efforts to combat such abuse...