Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...materials were mainly one-shot plays or marginal TV fare. In 1955, Marty, a faithful rendering of Paddy Chayefsky's drama, was a critical success that won the Oscar for best picture, and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Days of Wine and Roses. A dormant period was broken in the late 1970s when the TV transfers showed...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE...
...Babbitt nomination that raised the most worrisome prospect, a real confirmation battle. Last year the Interior Secretary angered Senators from Western states by trying to raise fees for grazing, mining and water rights on federal lands. As Babbitt pulled out in front of the other choices last week, Utah's Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted a fight. Though minority leader Robert Dole told the President privately that Babbitt could still be confirmed, probably by a vote of 80 to 20, the White House remained concerned about the possibility of a revolt spreading among Senate Democrats...
...Babbitt onto the court and away from land-use policy. "This isn't about logic," said a White House aide. "This is about personalities and personal relationships." By Thursday night it was looking like no for the Secretary. "They trial-ballooned the Babbitt thing," said an aide to a Western Senator. "It definitely popped...