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...industry also plans to fight the new advertising rules in court as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Earlier this year the Supreme Court struck down a state law that banned the mention of liquor prices in advertising. "The evidence is clear," says Brennan Dawson, spokesperson of the Tobacco Institute, "that the FDA's rules do not address the reasons youngsters smoke, will not work to reduce youth access to tobacco, and are an illegal expansion of this federal agency's authority." Or as they used to say in those old cigarette commercials, we'd rather fight than switch...
...decades. His famous assertion that "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice" was still audible in Buchanan's declaration of culture war--extremism in the pursuit of tradition--at the 1992 convention. But now that the smoke of '64 has cleared, it's evident Goldwater struck the themes of smaller government that would eventually bring his party to power. Struck them too hard, perhaps, and too soon, but still. In the meantime, however, the New Right lacked an electoral majority to compare with the Democratic alliance of labor, white Southerners and middle-class progressives. A marriage of ideological...
This he does. For like Shelton's other heroes, Roy is a purist. His quest is not necessarily for the best score--an enterprise that needs caution and compromise--but for that near unattainable ideal, the perfectly struck golf ball, which requires oneness with the universe. That a foolhardy opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the Open is the kind of bad dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life...
...Like writer-director Ron (Bull Durham, Cobb) Shelton's other heroes, golfer Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a purist. His quest is not necessarily for the best score -->