Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith's dramatic day in court last October superficially seemed like a replay of history. Examined more closely, it was a measure of how far the nation has progressed toward racial equality since 1954 -- and the difficult distance it still has to travel. While the constitutional battle fought by Oliver Brown raised the stark issue of legalized segregation, the concerns addressed by his daughter involved the ambiguous notion of "racial balance" in mixed schools and the lagging performance of some black pupils. Confronting this complex problem, both blacks and whites are split on whether more racial balance will help poor...
...singe the ear. Kubrick's majestic camera tracks across the barracks, it ascends obstacle courses, it glides past the soldiers, then abruptly cuts to close-ups, to study their pain head on. Their faces are fists clenched in rage and fear; they know that farce is about to replay itself as tragedy. The Marines never quite recover from the inevitable explosion. The film never quite survives its bravura beginning...
...videotape and instant replay, the A's were a sight to behold, especially on a color television. They were the first "made for television" baseball team, as their bright uniforms literally jumped into the family...
...scene at Detroit's sprawling, gritty Redford High School seemed like a % real-life replay of Blackboard Jungle. Throngs of students, some armed with knives, roamed the graffiti-covered halls, smoking marijuana, playing touch football and frequently fighting. Only about half the mostly black student body of 2,800 showed up for classes on any given day. The school's administrators had lost control. No wonder a monitoring commission set up by a federal court described Redford as the worst high school in Detroit...
...passing the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Congress sought to avoid a replay of 1973's Saturday Night Massacre, in which President Nixon had Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox fired. The act calls for the prosecutor to be appointed by a panel of three federal judges and not to be subject to presidential approval. But some legal observers argue that the provision has usurped powers that properly reside in the Executive Branch. "The special counsel is a distortion of the Constitution," says Washington Lawyer Ray Randolph. Philip Lacovara, counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, agrees, partly because the position...