Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deplore the tragedy which took place on the "Island of Peace," in which a Jordanian soldier fired on a group of Israeli schoolgirls, killing seven. This incident followed closely on King Hussein's letter of March 9 accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of pushing Arabs and Israelis toward "an abyss of bloodshed and disaster...
...DiCaprio. An executive at another studio says he can't imagine attempting "a period movie for that kind of dough on the water with Jim." What Cameron promises to deliver, of course, is the Titanic as no one has seen it. The director of Aliens, both Terminators and The Abyss, Cameron has "vast cinematic appetites," as an agent puts it, consistently delivering event films with dazzling effects. Nevertheless, Hollywood insiders can't fathom how Fox and Paramount--which are splitting the cost--will make money. Indeed, soon after shooting began, Paramount became spooked by the budget and demanded that...
...also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...
...themselves which candidate they would most trust to care for their children. It was his attempt to cast himself as the responsible adult in the race. He never dreamed that the Clinton campaign had already decided to offer up a young, energetic President standing between their children and the abyss beyond...
...subject on which he's even more qualified: judicial rulings on the right to die. "Medical ethics is the one area of medicine I still follow," says Krauthammer, who warns against allowing doctors to kill terminally ill patients. "Once these lines are crossed, the other side is the abyss. Judges don't understand what they're doing in these kinds of cases...