Word: silent
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Powell: Philosophically, the party is wider than you might expect just from listening to the ordinary rhetoric. There are a lot of Republicans who are somewhat silent and tend to be more in the moderate, Rockefeller vein. In order to appeal to the active wing of the party, most candidates are tacking to the right, and that seems to be what Bob Dole is doing...
Seventy-five years is an eon in pop culture. In 1921 movies were silent, radio was an infant, television a dream, alcohol consumption a crime. There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist. But some people in Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
...Kevorkian wore a sign which read in the front "Common law of Middle Ages. What's next, the Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts of assisting suicide. Circuit Judge David Breck entered an innocent plea on his behalf. Kevorkian has been the symbol for the "right-to-die" movement, but Gibbs points out that many are troubled by the 67-year old former pathologist. Says Gibbs: "Even...
...entrepreneurs--the Buffetts, the Eisners, the Gateses--will jet off to Minnesota to line up financing for their future moves. And one day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned--lock, stock and roulette wheel--by Lutheran Brotherhood and must renegotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120 for a suit...
Lest local civil-liberties lawyers tire of cruel-and-unusual punishment cases, however, James has also engaged them in the First Amendment arena. He has called for a law permitting school prayer (not a moment of silent prayer, but the vocal kind). Specifically, he embraced the cause of Judge Roy Moore, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has sued for praying over his Etowah County courtroom. James not only raised money for Moore's defense; the Governor is suing the ACLU for suing Moore...