Word: thurmondator
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the tour, Thorne was particularly taken aback when Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina publicly lectured him about his homosexuality. "Your life-style is not normal," Thurmond said as the audience at the base applauded wildly. "It's not normal for a man to want to be with a man or a woman with a woman." Thurmond then asked if Thorne had ever sought help from "medical or psychiatric aids...
...most prominent independents before Anderson--segregationists George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, in 1968 and 1948, respectively--did garner some electoral votes, but not enough to be a factor in Nixon's election or Truman's re-election. So, like his independent predecessors, Perot will emerge as merely a footnote in this election...
...conventional usage to refer to Ross Perot as a third-party candidate. In fact, he is nothing of the sort. Unlike the classic third-party candidates -- say, Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace, who in 1948 formed right- and left- wing offshoots of a real political party (the Democrats) -- Perot represents no party. He does not even pretend...
...begin in the office of San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) as he listens attentively to patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurmond). "I've had the dream again," she confides, haunted. "I'm arranging flowers as a centerpiece...
...year 3000. Their comments provide a sketchbook of the concerns, great and petty, of our age. Art Buchwald says he hopes there will be good air and good water, though "we didn't leave you any." The late Joseph Papp wishes for no more theater critics. Strom Thurmond advises a regimen of daily exercise. Howard Cosell, with his trademark bombast (we miss it), offers up a homily: "What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular." Oprah Winfrey explains that the things hanging from her ears are called earrings...