Word: cleaver
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There was no panelist named "Kathleen Kendlehurst." It seems that your reporter did not know of Kathleen Cleaver, the former communications secretary for the Black Panther Party, a Yale University graduate who teaches law at Emory University, a fellow at the Bunting Institute and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the past two years, and currently a fellow at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City...
...housewifery and life: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression; The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. Starting at $3 a column in 1964, she composed ruefully real depictions of domestic America that found a national audience among women who saw little of themselves in June Cleaver. Bombeck eventually appeared in 600 papers, but still lived the unpretentious life she wrote of, laughing through travail...
Instead of using these solutions as a model, however, Congress and President Clinton took the "meat-cleaver" approach, passing a law that effectively dumbs down the public areas of the Internet to a level suitable for all ages...
...have a lot more to worry about than losing their lucky baseball caps or breaking lamps while playing ball in the house. By the same token, parents are seen as having to deal with much more than the usual adolescent defiance or mischief-making one might find in the Cleaver residence. Out of this perception comes the disturbing rise of support for corporal punishment in the home and, for that matter, in schools as well. Recent judicial support for a school teacher brought to trial for paddling a student is just one example that the issue is becoming pervasive...
Oddly enough, the acting is mostly passable. Leguizamo is convincing and amusing as a woman and thus as a drag queen, even if he has to be an ignorant, dizzy one. As a cross between June Cleaver and Liz Taylor, Swayze succeeds in his matron role. Snipes, however, is a sight gag. Leguizamo and Swayze are graceful and can pull off the drag queen bit, but Snipes looks like a big man in a dress. His obnoxious anti-Latino lines make his character relatively unattractive as well. Blythe Danner, in a small part as an odd local, is subtle...