Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such confusions are the loose cog in the vastly complicated machinery of managed care, and the cause of more breakdowns--and personal agony--than anyone would care to admit. "This is reality," says Duke's Trotter. "This happens all the time...
Happiness doesn't easily admit to comparisons; though it carries echoes of Manhattan, Nashville and Hartley's pictures, it has a unique equipoise of soap opera and slasher film. After Solondz's scabrous little preteen angstathon, Welcome to the Dollhouse, earned more than $4 million on a budget of $800,000, October Films sponsored his next, $3 million project. But October was pressured this summer by its corporate parent, Universal Pictures, to dump the film. It will be released, unrated, by its own production company...
...regular basis. Like many Americans, I have been entertained by her interviews with everyone from Michael Jordan to LeAnn Rimes to Meryl Streep. I've watched Oprah make potato salad with Patti Labelle, dance with Tina Turner and Gloria Estefan, and sing with Elton John. And I'll admit that on certain occasions--when a family is finally reunited or when a particularly homely homemaker is given the makeover of her dreams--I have been touched. Maybe even inspired...
...triumph of the Hollywood crowd in the White House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
...game! My wife and daughters want to play only Bust-A-Move-2, a Tetris-like, digital opiate, circa 1996, that entails firing small colored balls into three-of-a-kind formations. When you lose, a chicken squawks in what sounds to me like a mocking tone. I will admit the game has appeal. But compared to football? Please...