Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...
...Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service. Their common challenge, as described in the gravel tones of committee chairman Howell Heflin of Alabama, was to erase the perception that "your services were bought by Charles Keating, that you were bribed, that you sold your office...
Instead, Friedman, who graduated from Yale Law School two years ago, talked mostly about how race affects the death penalty in Georgia and Alabama...
...Alabama GOP Gov. Guy Hunt won a close race for re-election...
Bozzotto derided the Democratic candidate for governor, John R. Silber, saying his comments indicated he was anti-immigrant and anti woman. He labeled Silber, "George Wallace with a brain," referring to the former Alabama governor who was an ardent segregationist...