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Since its peak two decades ago, the women's movement has spawned subgroups whose diverse interests range from pushing day care to combating pornography. In some ways, feminist politics have expanded too much to keep women under one tent. In the Thomas-Hill aftermath, feminists took their energy in different directions: Geraldine Jensen, who heads a Toledo-based organization that seeks to strengthen child-support laws, says she plans to use the recent performance of the Senate Judiciary Committee to illustrate to her supporters why tough enforcement legislation has failed. "Now people will understand me when I say that these...
When the circus tent opened, there sat a row of white men, some of great stature, who made every effort to disappear behind the thin silhouette of their microphones. Here were career public servants, never camera shy, being forced to ask questions like "Professor Hill, now that you have read the FBI report, you can see that it contains no reference to any mention of Judge Thomas' private parts or sexual prowess. Why didn't you tell the FBI about that?" Having begun the week under fire for their sexism, the Senators ended the week accused of acting like...
Rush gives great spiel. His radio persona, which is nearly identical to his genially blustering off-mike personality, mixes country lawyer with sideshow barker, tent evangelist with Spike Jones rhythm section. In the space of a single sentence, he will rattle newspapers into the microphone, impersonate Benjamin Hooks (Does the N.A.A.C.P. director really sound like Amos 'n' Andy's Kingfish?) and break into an impromptu chorus of Blue Moon. When Limbaugh gets revved up, he comes on like John Madden with a grudge...
...officially ended two weeks ago with the collapse of the coup in Moscow and the subsequent rout of the Communist Party by reformers bearing the twin banners of democracy and Mother Russia. If it had been a hot war, some soldier might have rushed into an American general's tent, crying, "Sir, Moscow has fallen!" As it was, there was just the quiet realization that the world had changed utterly and that where East-West relations are concerned, the past was no longer prologue...
Even before the customary flocks of cars, vans and U-hauls began lining the Ivy gates, a dozen or so eager Yardlings waited anxiously nearby the official green and white striped room key tent...