Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole, racial redistricting has undercut aggregate support for policies favored by Blacks on the floor of the House by concentrating voting strength in a few majority-Black districts. Moreover, the replacement of moderate Democrats by conservative Republicans and the shift to the right of other Democrats representing districts with white majorities has also decreased support for Black political goals...
...first time what people actually download, rather than what they say they want to see. "We now know what the consumers of computer pornography really look at in the privacy of their own homes," says Marty Rimm, the study's principal investigator. "And we're finding a fundamental shift in the kinds of images they demand...
...whole 'nice' thing has been overplayed," contends Michael Keaton, who starred in Howard's first studio film, Night Shift, as well as in the director's later features Gung Ho and The Paper. "He can make cold, hard decisions when he needs to. It's not like he rolls over. He does anything but roll over." Says Howard: "I'm not real neurotic, so I don't heap pressure on people unnecessarily. But if we're falling behind schedule or missing something artistically, it doesn't take a hell of a lot for me to let that be known...
...starting to learn the filmmaking craft. While in his teens, he won second prize in a Kodak-sponsored movie contest and briefly attended film school at the University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want Ron to direct it," recalls his longtime producing partner, Brian Grazer. "Some of those people are still around today--except now they're all trying to kiss...
...Harvard who would be different from anyone I had met before. I thought that I was entering Harvard with the same perspective I would have when I left. But then I arrived on campus and the way I thought about myself and everything else in my life began to shift beneath the surface, exposing a fault line I never knew existed...