Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic centerpiece of the film is a half-hour segment in which the dying Christ, played by Willem Dafoe, hallucinates about the devil's final temptation: come down from the Cross, renounce your role as the Messiah, marry Mary Magdalene and live a long and ordinary life...
...necessarily better, clay. At the same Olympic parade, such as Montreal's in 1976, the likes of the glorious Shun Fujimoto and the notorious Boris Onischenko can march into the sunlight together. The Soviet army's Major Onischenko came forever to be known as Disonischenko after the fencing segment of the modern pentathlon, when a battery was discovered in his nose cone. Like a burp at a banquet, Boris' epee went off by itself and beeped a phantom touche. The major was briskly spirited away to the U.S.S.R...
...show is no disaster, but it is not one of Oprah's classics -- like the segment with women who have borne children by their own fathers, in which Oprah interviewed an abusing father from his prison cell and called him "slime." Nor is it a newsmaking event, like Oprah's trip to racially troubled Forsyth County, Ga., where a redneck in the audience calmly explained to the black talk-show host the difference between "blacks" and "niggers" (niggers, it appeared, are blacks who make trouble). Nor is it even one of the titillating women's-magazine subjects that constitute...
...between her grandmother in Mississippi, her mother in Milwaukee and her father in Nashville. The time with her mother was the most traumatic: she suffered several instances of sexual abuse, the first at age nine by a 19-year-old cousin. Oprah revealed the incident in a now legendary segment of her talk show; today she says the abuse was "not a horrible thing in my life. There was a lesson in it. It teaches you not to let people abuse...
...become a melancholy truism that drugs have penetrated every segment of American society. Including the White House? Yes, presidential aides confirmed last week: two National Security Council clerks have been fired and three uniformed Secret Service guards suspended because of alleged drug use. Apparently it occurred off the job; Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said there had been no use or sale of drugs on the White House grounds and no breaches of security...