Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole has captured one of politics' greatest prizes without one of the most important ingredients of any successful campaign: a tight circle of trusted advisers who can tell him when he's right, when he's wrong and when he needs to shape up. Dole simply believes he knows more about politics than anyone else. The last man whose advice he wholly trusted was Richard Nixon. "That was the only time I ever saw him sit up and sit still for more than 10 minutes and listen," said Tom Korologos, describing a trip the two men made to the sage...
...deemed protected by the First Amendment only so long as it was disassociated from whatever was considered really bad behavior--sexism to feminists on the left and sexual promiscuity to traditionalists on the right. (It's worth noting that the more extreme feminist protests of sexual misconduct, which helped shape the date-rape debate, made sexual promiscuity seem a kind of sexism, or false consciousness.) Liberal faith in the inherent value of saying something--anything--was abandoned. The act of speaking was considered only as valuable as the content of the speech...
...also get a sense of the multiple agents responsible for creating a movie, the ways in which even the subtlest contributions of directors, writers and actors shape the final product. The directors, writers and actors who speak here feel responsible in varying degrees for the implications of their films. Farley Granger describes the actors' awareness of the homosexual themes in "Rope," while Shirley Maclaine wonders at the production of "The Children's Hour," a film wholly concerned with lesbianism, during which the words and ideas of homosexuality were never even mentioned...
...under way. It is 230 days to defeating Bill Clinton," he said. Dole easily beat rival Pat Buchanan in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, pushing him past the 996 mark in delegates needed for the nomination. Buchanan has vowed to stay in the race in an effort to shape the GOP platform and Dole's choice for running mate. Dole ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination in 1980 and 1988. In 1988, Dole lost the New Hampshire primary to George Bush and could not recover. This year, Dole rebounded from losses in three of the first five primaries -- including...
...F.D.R. gave America the New Deal; Truman followed with the Fair Deal; Reagan and Bush gave us special deals for the wealthy and secret deals with arms-for-hostages. The American people are tired of deals. Americans want a guiding principle that says "Hard work deserves fair rewards" to shape our leaders' and nation's agenda. JEFF SOFTLEY Los Angeles...