Word: womanfully
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Last week's rehearing was prompted by an employment-discrimination suit brought by a black woman, Brenda Patterson, against a North Carolina credit union -- an action relying on the Runyon precedent. Instead of deciding the Patterson suit on its own merits, the court voted last April to schedule a rehearing of Runyon itself. If the court reverses its earlier stand, it could deprive blacks of what has become a significant weapon against bias by employers or private schools. It will also undo a decision that has provided a basis for subsequent federal law and more than 100 lower-court rulings...
...poverty is relative, so too are many other experiences. A woman in Brownsville, so recent an arrival in the U.S. that she needs a Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor...
...efforts to portray Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as soft on crime, Bush has relentlessly reiterated the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison...
...Massachusetts furlough program was instituted under Dukakis' predecessor, Republican Ed King, and that California had an almost identical program under then-Governor Ronald Reagan. They remind voters that as Vice President, Bush never objected to the furlough program for federal prisoners, even when a convicted murderer raped a woman in Arizona while on a weekend furlough...
Despite poor direction, Williams' words do manage to shine through some of the characters. Thea Henry is a vibrant Venable, and Jy Murphy dexterous in his minute role as Cathie's brother. And Sara Melson couldn't look more like a Southern woman of Williams' time. Still, Suddenly Last Summer can't end suddenly enough...