Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of Lionel Hall, for hours before and after dinner. She dragged me, practically kicking and screaming, onto the T for the first time. Her family took me in as another daughter. They drove us to Salisbury Beach, where I shivered with cold and yelled about the value of southern Texas waters as she and her brothers happily swam, polar bear-like, around me. We rented "So I Married an Axe Murderer" more times than I care to admit, and would frighten tourist groups in the Yard by reciting (loudly) all of Mike Myers' "Woman! Wo-man! Wooooooman!" speeches...
...Stockard Channing's frazzled patient. Nathan Lane and Swoosie Kurtz as two actors waiting for an opening-night review ran their fingernails under each other's egos. Betty Buckley as a modern-media Medea got lectured by a toughlove angel (Whoopi Goldberg). Stunning Susan Sarandon was a fretful Southern mama trying to marry off her shy, sly son (delicious David Hyde Pierce), who had eyes only for his glass menagerie of cocktail swizzle sticks...
...Cincinnati goes, so goes the nation. That?s what pornographer Larry Flynt is trying to establish at his latest trial, which opened in the southern Ohio city on Monday. Flynt and his brother Jimmy are charged with violating local obscenity laws, some of the most stringent in the country, by selling sexually explict videos to a 14-year-old at their local Hustler Magazine and Gifts store. Flynt who?s been busy baiting Cincinnati?s smut-shunning political establishment for years, wants to do nothing less in the current case than "to smash the current legal definition of obscenity, which...
...there can be no justice, including financial payments, to compensate for the Holocaust [ESSAY, April 12]. But how can one live with the hopeless assertion that here "injustice prevails"? If we confine the forces of good and evil to this world alone, evil will always win. SUSAN P. KEMPLE Southern Pines...
...Calm, assured answers ("We're blessed to be an adoptive family," "My husband is Chinese") disarm loaded questions and offer examples of coping behavior. "I had to model appropriate behavior and give answers I hope my children would use," says Nancy G. Brown, co-founder of Multiracial Americans of Southern California and mother of Nicole and Rachelle, two biracial black-and-white girls. Her daughters, now teenagers, handle questions with aplomb and simple, swift replies...