Word: waller
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With the stroke of a pen, President Clinton today forbade federal agencies to consider sexual orientation in granting security clearances. Though gay rights groups praised the move as a signal of respect, TIME's Douglas Waller says agencies are no longer "hung up" on the Cold War mentality that blackballed homosexuals for fear they would be blackmailed. "The CIA no longer screens for homosexuals," Waller says. "About five years ago, other agencies had a question on their polygraph tests about whether the person ever had homosexual tendecies, but people kept on tripping on the polygraph because...
Eastwood and Streep, both already being named as sure contenders at next year's Academy Wards, have taken the task of adapting Robert James Waller's beautiful, simple, and two-year bestselling novel to screen with great style...
Certainly, they have added their own touches along the way--Waller's Francesca had a "hint" of an Italian accent, which Streep expanded to create an exaggerated, yet truly convincing, Italian voice for Francesca. Eastwood, who is also the director, is not precisely the long-haired hippie that waller describes, but is nonetheless perfect as the "last cowboy" with a profound wanderlust...
...charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation...
...crits, those old prunes, scratched their high foreheads at the success of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. This tale of middle-age passion -- in which a roving photographer, Robert Kincaid, has a volcanic three-day affair with Francesca Johnson, an Italian woman who has lived for 20 years as an Iowa farmwife -- was filled with clichas masquerading as erotic eruptions. But Waller knows the secret of romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such...