Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty if he can afford to retain one of them. And just as the hearing is a sneak preview of the murder trial, so these bit players seem...
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLÄo restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...
...Vladimir Zhirinovsky is no Adolf Hitler, and the current Russian republic is no Weimar. Russia is not the pariah among nations that post-World War I Germany was; there are no Western Allied powers lording over a defeated Russia. True, Russia has suffered economic hardship, but not to the point of 400% inflation in four years (1929-1933) such as in Germany. Moreover, the Western powers are well-armed, prepared and even interventionist these days (as opposed to the way we were under the Monroe Doctrine-influenced isolationism of the 1930s...
...Diller tangled with Martin Davis, chairman of Gulf & Western, which owned Paramount, and left the studio to become chairman of Fox. (The same year, Eisner and Katzenberg went to Disney; Mancuso stayed to run Paramount.) Murdoch, who bought the studio a year later, gave Diller the mandate to create a fourth prime-time network. That he did, with his patented management style: creative listening. "What Barry does," says Garth Ancier, Fox's TV programming chief under Diller, "is assemble teams of people and then bring them into the room to debate different ideas. He obviously ran the whole thing...
...governments day-to-day, pending elections that would possibly take place next year. But Arafat has shown no inclination to accept that plan or any other that would require him to share his power. "The Palestinian Authority," complains a senior P.L.O. official, "consists entirely of yes- men." Says a Western diplomat: "Arafat is in no hurry for elections. He will try to structure them to prevent a challenge to his pre-eminence...