Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famous April afternoon when Reno went before the cameras to explain the disastrous finale in Waco, the peculiar laws of politics ensured that she would get all the credit for taking all the blame. The first image Americans held of their brand-new Attorney General was of a stern, sad, certain woman describing a terrible tragedy and using none of the greasy legal language that would have shielded her from blame...
...Damon Wayans' spoof Blankman. "There was a scene where some gangsters come in and shoot people," he says. "We changed it so they shot at the ceiling and the people ran out of the room." Now Lawton is wrangling over his script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn't hold back," Lawton says. "There's a lot of nudity, some harsh language, a lesbian love scene, and the main character works for an underground sex magazine. We told New Line Cinema the plot, and they said, 'Yeah, it sounds great...
...Monday morning, May 24, calls were flooding into Reno's office, and the Attorney General asked press aide Carl Stern to find out how the FBI had become involved. On getting his report, says an associate, Reno "wheeled in her chair and called Bernie Nussbaum" in the White House counsel's office. Calmly but firmly, she insisted that "potential" as well as "pending" investigations be cleared through her. Nussbaum's reply: "We didn't do anything wrong, but it won't happen again...
...Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue, then Mary, the baby. They lived a classic Roman Catholic postwar childhood: their father, a bandleader, easygoing and affectionate; his wife a stern but loving homemaker; new outfits, with bonnets, each Easter; the strict, black-and-white doctrine of the Baltimore Catechism. Ice skating at the church rink. Splitting the work after supper, one girl clearing, one washing, one drying, one sweeping. And the games until dusk. "Red rover, red rover," says Mary...
Committee Superintendent Mary Lou McGrath's nominated Boston school Administrator Ruben L. Stern for the permanent position of assistant house master. The nomination of Stern, who is Hispanic, provoked sharp criticism from audience members who accused her of "pitting minority against minority...