Word: southerners
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Photo Finish for Schwarzenegger A judge in Southern California has convicted two photographers, Giles Harrison and Andrew O'Brien, of false imprisonment for briefly pinning Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, journalist Maria Shriver, in their car while taking pictures. One of the men was also convicted of reckless driving during the May 1997 incident. They face up to a year in jail on each count (sentencing is expected next month). Shriver testified Monday that she felt like a "caged animal" when the two photographers surrounded her car and that she became "terrified" after losing sight of her young son Patrick...
...maybe the third protagonist of the '60s should be conjured up. Until the middle of last week, I had been working on the conceit that Bill Clinton is Lyndon Johnson Without Tears--both Clinton and Johnson being big-hearted, triple-slick Southern boys, and mama's boys, with a genius for politics, and a bardic gift for storytelling, and huge egos and insecurities interbraided, and minds aggressively intelligent, instinctive, fiercely absorptive, and with a love of people, and a general incapacity to tell the truth. Or anyway (let's be nice) a way of thinking of the truth as only...
...whose Sling Blade was partly inspired by Boo Radley, and who plays a pivotal cameo in The Apostle. "He observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
...Congress on March 30 about the military threat Cuba poses to the U.S. The report, ordered by Florida Senator Bob Graham, must detail whether Havana could attack American territory with chemical and biological weapons. Why the worry? Cuba has no such weapons, and the Pentagon has withdrawn forces from southern Florida because it no longer considers the island a military threat. But the report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian MiG-29 jets, which Moscow delivered during the cold war, that are equipped...
...according to Laurie M. Smith, a representative in the admissions office. Maclennan said the office has processed about 140 applications so far this year and in the end will probably log more British applicants than it did last year. She added that most of the applicants are from southern England...