Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds, 47, an avowed homosexual who was censured last year for his 1973 affair with a male Capitol Hill page, drubbed Plymouth County Sheriff Peter Flynn. In the Seventh District, four-term Democratic Congressman Edward Markey, 38, a leading nuclear-freeze advocate, bested former State Senator Sam Rotondi, a conservative, with 57% of the vote...
...soon the fad faded in red ink and rancor. The same black community leaders who would urge Paramount Pictures to suppress Ralph Bakshi's "racist" film Coonskin (and, a decade later, Sam Fuller's White Dog) were condemning blaxploitation as image suicide. Moreover, white liberal producers, reluctant to portray black men as rapists and dopers, failed to come up with alternatives. "If you're not working," says Actor Stan Shaw (Roots II), "you don't "get better...
...convinced the standard cycle will unfold. Says he: "Just as in the 1960s, this patriotic wave will in turn lead to a concern about change, whether political, economic or social." So far, however, the current spirit, patriotic and otherwise, shows little sign of being harnessed purposefully. Says Sam Brown, who was director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency that operates the Peace Corps and VISTA, during the Carter Administration: "With all this sense of feeling good about ourselves, I haven't seen a growth of generous spirit toward the least privileged among us, and that has the risk...
Whether bringing Lenny Skutnik, the Air Florida crash hero, to his State of the Union address at the Capitol or making time for a photo session with Retton and the other Olympic medalists, Reagan manages to come off like a kindly Uncle Sam. Even when his rhetoric turns maudlin and manipulative, he seems sincere, for the President believes the patriotic pieties simply and intensely. He gives himself goose bumps. In a speech at the American Legion convention two weeks ago, Reagan went right to the heart of the matter. "What a change from only a few years ago, when patriotism...
According to Aérospatiale, no less an authority than the Sheffield's commander, Captain Sam Salt, has vouched for the missile's effectiveness. "I was there," the ad quotes Salt as saying, "and there is no doubt that the warhead exploded." In addition, Aérospatiale claims that as of July 10, Exocets had been used successfully against 112 ships in the Persian Gulf, a statistic that has not been independently confirmed. Of 103 cases examined, the ad stated, "57 ships either sank, ran aground or were towed home for scrapping; damage to the other...