Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, for every one of these elegant moments, there are two or three heavy-handed ones to drown it out. And by the time lightning and thunder begin to roll on cue, we realize we're watching a sermon, not a movie. Admittedly, the subject of sensational journalism offers plenty to preach about. "Today, the journalist discovers the news at the same time as the audience," Costa-Gavras warns, "He doesn't have time to put events into perspective." Gavras makes an excellent point. Mad City could also have profited from a little perspective. Its creators failed to notice that...
...Clinton called on the stable of fast-tracking ex-presidents, who piped up for the measure at an opening ceremony for the Bush presidential library. On the way home, he was ringing up lawmakers from Air Force One. But ideologically, Clinton is already blue in the face on the subject, and for converts the pork store is officially open...
Mansfield, who vehemently opposes affirmative action, catalogued the advantages and disadvantages of the policy, singling out blacks as the subject of his address...
...Every computer system that is on a network is subject to attacks on its security. This is true everywhere," he said...
DIED. ANN DEVROY, 49, determined, shrewd, indefatigable Washington Post White House correspondent; of cancer; in Washington. Her dogged professionalism in covering four Presidents won Devroy the admiration of her peers and prompted one subject, George Bush, to write admiringly to the ailing reporter, "I want the same toughness that angered me and frustrated me to a fare-thee-well at times to see you through your fight...