Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with constitutional principles. Although the Supreme Court discovered a right to privacy in our Constitution, it could not agree on whether the right resides in the Ninth or 14th Amendment. Perhaps this is because the Constitution is, in fact, silent on this issue...
...this film (and in another enticing compilation, David Johnson's The Lavender Lens: 100 Years of Celluloid Queers, available in some video stores), we see gay characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a cruel hairdo to an effeminate man) to the '90s (when gay or bisexual murderers lend lurid pizazz to The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct), American films--like America itself--have typically treated gays as a joke or a curse...
...call to Havana in a private effort to market his famed supply-side capitalist remedies to top Cuban officials. Wanniski, then a Bob Dole booster, received a prompt letter of admonishment from the Senate leader ("I would appreciate being consulted..."). Though Forbes opposes Castro, he has so far stayed silent about his economic guru's Caribbean fling. Did Forbes know about it? "Steve knew everything about the trip," says Wanniski. "I share with him everything I send my clients, and I get Forbes and FYI magazines in return...
...that primary; but the family's two other kingmakers talked him out of it. Jeb's older brother, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and his father, former President George Bush, urged him to wait and see what happened in New Hampshire. So far, all three Bushes have remained publicly silent...
...continued to experience what he calls "subtle forms of harassment, retaliation and intimidation." His performance evaluation was downgraded, his personnel file forwarded to Northeast's lawyers. DeBarba "offered" to move him out of the nuclear group. He would walk into a meeting, and the room would go suddenly silent. DeBarba says he is unaware of any such harassment...