Word: revisionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars are actually pretty good--Moore holds the camera's gaze as securely as any actress--but they can't save this revisionist slog. The film blames the 17th century for not being the 20th and Hawthorne for not being Danielle Steel. If this Scarlet got a letter, it would...
...limited new strategy dashed another Wilson boast: that he would "compete everywhere." In revisionist mode, Wilson strategists turn that claim into an alleged disadvantage for front runner Dole. "Dole has to fight on all fronts--and can't afford to lose anywhere," argues Wilson aide Dan Schnur. "The moment Dole loses just one contest, he's through. And Pete Wilson will be the best positioned candidate to take advantage of that opportunity when it comes." All well and good, if Wilson can come up with the cash to stay in the race...
...Weld undoubtedly wanted Fried in place for those landmark political decisions that inevitably move on to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fried's writings have been characterized as inimical to labor and women, with a revisionist view of Roe v. Wade and disparagement for unions...
...large part due to their non-military status; we must avoid whenever possible the exorbitant costs of international policing if we hope to partake in this prosperity. The consequences of such a policy would compromise economic and political relations as well as our strategic links abroad. Indeed, while its revisionist policy on the U.N. aims at denying this paramount institution of collective security any real influence, the "Contract for America" cleverly fails to address the issue of foreign trade and investment altogether...
...three weeks ago. These boys and girls aren't even cultural Neanderthals. They're Jurassic. On culture, the limbic forebrain can hold one sound bite at a time, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh or George Will. PBS? "Elitist welfare for the rich." The NEA? "State-subsidized porn." The NEH? "P.c. revisionist history." By a vote of 230 to 194, driven by a rump of dozens of junior members, the House voted to "zero out" all funding for the NEA by October 1997 and phase out the agency in two years. The NEH and CPB are also in peril...