Word: sellout
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...Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story -- qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer -- would constitute that much of a sellout...
...Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story -- qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer -- would constitute that much of a sellout...
...just the shot in the arm (and hopefully a rise in attendance) that the game needs. Friday night's face-off in Atlanta between the Braves and Orioles is just what supporters had in mind: baseball's best teams squaring off in a June World Series preview, and sellout crowds of 50,000 crammed into Turner field, all clamoring for a look at Cal Ripken and the man who ended the Braves' 1996 season, Jimmy Key. It was certainly a hit Thursday in Texas, where 46,507 showed up at The Ballpark to see history made. After notching...
...countries such as Switzerland. But it presented no evidence that the Swiss knew that any of the gold was gotten as it was: from the pockets, mouths and necks of Holocaust victims. Eizenstat insisted on Switzerland's obligation to recognize its lucrative trade relationship for what is was: a sellout. "In the unique circumstances of World War II," he said, "too often being neutral provided a pretext for avoiding moral considerations." And that went for the U.S. too, Eizenstat said. "Neither the U.S. nor the allies pressed the neutral countries hard enough to fulfill their moral obligations to help Holocaust...
...quick to point out, that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, testified at a 1993 congressional hearing devoted to whether a new, "multiracial" category should be added to U.S. Census forms that "I can see a whole host of light-skinned...