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Part of the Christian Right's success comes from retooling its strategy to emphasize fiscal rather than social issues. It is also working to revive its strong organizations. Wyatt Roberts of the conservative American Family Association of Texas warns that the Christian right failed to rally in the May elections because it was coasting on the electoral victories of last fall. "Irrespective of philosophy," he says, "the bottom line is who does the best job on campaigning." Moderate groups concur. The National Education Association and People for the American Way recently agreed to cooperate with local coalitions in as many...
...assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., "makes me want to throw...
...advance views that are at odds with those of most black Americans." The court will soon rule on another vital issue: whether it is constitutional to create majority black districts so that African Americans can be elected to Congress. As they await Thomas' vote, a lot of blacks besides Wyatt Tee Walker are feeling queasy all over again...
...marriage to actor Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff, The Big Easy, Wyatt Earp) is an opposites-attract story. "Dennis is from Texas," she says. "He's expansive. He likes space. I'm from a state with little hills, valleys and towns. It's condensed and defined. I like to call things something, put words to it, make it understandable...
...then Gibson's Braveheart. It's one more genre, like westerns (and astronaut films), that studios make mostly because veteran stars and directors want to. Walter Hill has a new western, Wild Bill, with Jeff Bridges, and the principals hope it will imitate the popular oater Tombstone and not Wyatt Earp, Costner's pricey flop on the same subject...