Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Carlene Carter: I Fell in Love (Reprise). A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse. If country music is still a man's game, Carter is effortlessly bending the rules...
They were like the Kennedys of Massachusetts, an immigrant clan that reaped power and pain in almost equal measure. They were like the Ewings of Dallas, with a brilliant, scheming son wrapping his dirty deals in a whisper and a smile. They were like every family, the Corleones of Mario Puzo's imagination, except they wrote their quarrels in blood. They killed their rivals, and when they felt betrayed from within, they killed each other...
...Like Bush, Bennett had stumped for Helms. In his first statements as the designated G.O.P. chairman, Bennett defended Helms' campaign strategy as "perfectly legitimate." He also criticized affirmative-action programs generally. After all, he had co- authored a 1979 book called Counting by Race, which argued, "Quite simply, numerical equality is an unworthy means for a people dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
...Horton ploy worked as well as it did because Michael Dukakis responded feebly. Determined to fight back this time, the Democrats began rhetorical carpet bombing a month ago. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment...
...started off just playing in public, and our audience got bigger and bigger. Record companies in Australia had to sign us because our live-show following was bigger than some people's record sales." Adds Michael Hutchence, 30, who handles lyrics, lead vocals and sex-symbol assignments with equal panache: "We've toured a lot around the world for three or four years without a lot of success to tour on at first, because that's one of the ways we show what we're made of. I mean, we are one of the best live bands in the world...