Word: chairwoman
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...circumnavigate a promised filibuster by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), who has made the nominationan issue in his presidential campaign. With Frist's support, Foster now has 52 votes -- eight short of the number needed to block the move. But three "no" voters on the committee, including chairwoman Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, today said they would back a full Senate vote...
...Best Documentary Feature Films [SHOW BUSINESS, Feb. 27], Richard Corliss listed several documentaries that the Academy did not nominate, including The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. The fact is that this documentary was never even submitted to the Academy for consideration. Corliss further misstates that I was chairwoman of the Documentary nominating committee, implying that something other than merit was involved in the nomination of the documentary Maya Lin, which I co-produced. I am not the chair of the committee; it is headed by Walter Shenson. The fact that Maya Lin was awarded the Oscar shows that...
Three days after she was elected chairwoman of the N.A.A.C.P., Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, rushed home from Washington to be with her critically ill husband Walter Williams, a retired longshoreman. He died the next day of cancer...
...voters have been called creaky (retired folks with time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell...
...NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams left her dying husband's bedside on Saturday to be present for the close vote that elected her, and to preside over her first meeting as chair. Early this morning, Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...