Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moved away from the radical left. Most Republicans identify themselves as conservatives. However, few consider themselves reactionaries. The loss of the South and West in the elections was the result of a lack of insight and leadership. Newt's resignation is not the "honorable thing"; it is the necessary action to allow the party to move forward and return to championing the issues. ED GROOMS Taylors...
Those Grimm boys moved their plots along like rockets. Today, they'd no doubt be writing screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer. In this action-packed tale, a young man is saved from imminent death twice and then has to go to hell and back--no, really--to win the hand of the princess he loves. The religious right may not like the sympathetic portrayal of the devil's granny, but no one can fault the charming illustrations or the happy ending...
...United Action. "...it was clear that the substance of talks was leaking immediately to the Iraqis." (New York Times, 11/18/98...
Joseph Nocera is an editor at large at FORTUNE and author of A Piece of the Action...
Mickey owed a lot of his initial success, however, to Disney's technological acuity. For Disney was the first to add a music and effects track to a cartoon, and that, coupled with anarchically inventive animation, wowed audiences, especially in the early days of sound, when live-action films were hobbled to immobile microphones...