Word: soapbox
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...obscenity-laden e-mail from a show employee. Though the show's creator, Don Cornelius, told TIME he didn't authorize any such e-mail, he's still eager to bury Zamora: "It's a patriarchal syndrome when any 15-year-old nonblack kid can get on a soapbox and raise questions about a program like ours...
...course, precisely because it's so timely and urgent, it would have deserved to be singled out if it had been brilliant - which Sorkin is capable of when he stows his soapbox - so to overlook its less-than-brilliance would be condescending charity that Sorkin does not need from me. Besides which, I live in New York City. I claim no special victimhood, but I've seen firsthand the effects of the crimes of Sept. 11 on neighbors, friends, complete strangers. Which is to say, I need no reminder that these are horrible times, times that demand kindness and goodwill...
...needs reality TV? For hundreds of thousands of Japanese voyeurs, sensational drama unfolds regularly on Channel 2, which claims some 8 million hits a day and is the country's eighth most accessed site. The bulletin board wasn't meant to be a soapbox for deranged malcontents but rather a rare haven for Japanese to discuss normally taboo subjects, like the yakuza, the royal family and discrimination against Koreans?topics the mainstream media either sanitizes or simply won't touch. "The Emperor is a war criminal. How is it that we haven't yet done away with the Imperial system...
...watched Conservative Prime Minister John Major standing on his old-fashioned soapbox, for which he was first derided then admired. It was obvious that he still believed he might just win. The Tories, though exhausted, still had some of their 'big beasts' - politicians like former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine and former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke - fronting their campaign and giving it a buzz. Most important, New Labour was a reinvented party that hadn't yet fully revealed itself. Full of zest, it opened the prospect of stimulating change to Britain's tired plitical scene, fuelling the adrenalin of journalists covering...
...first time the Commencement speech had touched on national and international issues. The soapbox provided by the annual festivities has often inspired speeches reflective of the critical issues of the time...