Word: subject
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...shift in rhetoric on this subject matches the rightward migration of the Republican Party on major questions of policy over the past few years. The reasons for this, while including the rightward movement of political culture and the ascendancy of conservatives into Congressional leadership, also include an often overlooked explanation: Bill Clinton. One of the most telling political cartoons of the past four years was a drawing of eight figures arrayed on the political spectrum. On the far left was Jesse Jackson and next to him, moving rightward, was Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill...
...been a matter of dispute, but now scholars of the subject agree that Bessette and Kennedy first met in 1992, when he chatted her up one day in Central Park as she was running. At the time, he was seeing actress Daryl Hannah. Shortly afterward, Kennedy appeared at Calvin Klein. One of Bessette's tasks was to help celebrities do their shopping, and she was given the Kennedy assignment. That day he bought three suits...
...strong female roles in popular films, not just Waiting to Exhale but less reductive fare: Pocahontas, Dangerous Minds, While You Were Sleeping, The Bridges of Madison County, Waiting to Exhale, Clueless, The Net, Sense and Sensibility. First Wives is in the generous spirit of those films. It takes a subject whose painfulness might not automatically attract middle-aged females ("Now playing at a theater near you: your husband left you for a younger woman!") and cannily repackages it as cathartic comedy...
...enough to get people to turn off their TVs and read? She may be. The talk-show host recently announced that her show would conduct "the biggest book club in the whole world," and that Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean would be her first discussion subject. That alone sent the novel to the top of bestseller lists around the country. And even though her semiannual book shows get low ratings, Oprah told the Washington Post, "I always feel if you do right, right will follow...
...political moment when waffling can be a shrewd move and compromise has become the order of the day, Faye Wattleton seems almost a relic. The telegenic and controversial head of Planned Parenthood from 1978 to 1992, Wattleton winces at phrases like "common ground" when applied to the subject of reproductive rights for women. For Wattleton, whose mother was a traveling Fundamentalist preacher for the Church of God, right and wrong--like heaven and hell--are very clearly defined...