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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wisdom of enforcing court orders that required the desegregation of Southern public schools, by busing if necessary. A lot of people didn't like the idea. Buchanan was one. As he told Garment, he was working on a speech for Vice President Spiro Agnew that would "tear the scab off the issue of race in this country." In a White House memo, Buchanan argued that "the ship of integration is going down; it is not our ship; it belongs to national liberalism; and we ought not to be aboard." He left the Ford Administration when he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE CASE AGAINST BUCHANAN | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...lost in such cable-ready classics as Sister, Sister and Miami Blues. Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in The Hudsucker Proxy and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, and, here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, she leaves no emotional scab unpicked. It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SISTER, SISTER | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...such cable-ready classics as "Sister, Sister" and "Miami Blues". Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", and, here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, Corliss notes, Leigh leaves no emotional scab unpicked. "It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . GEORGIA | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

Ready or not, scab baseball is set to begin tonight. The players and owners have still not settled. Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

Baseball's First Scab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 15-21 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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