Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Violence never looked so good. 7: Miller's Crossing(1990). Look into your heart. Sure, this is in many ways a homage to the great gangster movies -- so what? Everything works, and works brilliantly. 6: The Godfather, Part 2 (1974). C'mon -- the fishing boat scene? The abortion speech? Admit it -- this is a better film than Part 1, even without Sonny. 5: Gone With the Wind (1939). How can you not like a film that features the burning of Atlanta? 4: The Wizard of Oz (1939). To understand how great this movie is, remember this: Generations of us faithfully...
...privately the President's aides and allies admit that if Lewinsky cooperates, and if what she has to say is bad enough, Clinton will have to reconsider whether to offer more than he has of his side of the story--either that or attack her credibility head on. In that event, even the Vanity Fair spread could be spun in public as evidence that she's a starstruck and self-dramatizing young woman prone to glamorous fantasies. But as Starr must also appreciate, going after Lewinsky is a tactic that could backfire in public opinion...
...Hitler) whose influence was huge. But for artists, everyone was tempted to push for personal favorites, the folks each of us thought were the best. For example, I'm in that slice of my generation that thinks the Stones were better than the Beatles, but I had to admit the Beatles had more influence. In the end a lot of people who may have been the best in their field (film director Ingmar Bergman, for example) did not make the list because their greatness surpassed their enduring influence...
...admit this: Bart has a riven soul. He needs to be loved ("Tell me I'm good!" he pleads of his friend Milhouse's mom). But do hold the pathos. The reason for his appeal is that he's so brilliant at being bad; his pranks have a showman's panache. When he drives off in what is touted as Hitler's car, he chortles, "It's Fuhrer-ific!" After impishly filling Groundskeeper Willie's shack with creamed corn, he listens to Willie curse, "You did it, Bart Simpson!" and murmurs, with practiced modesty, "The man knows quality work...
...senior officials admit as much. "The recent senior appointment in the chemistry department was not `ad hoc-ed' because the department believed it was extremely important to move ahead rapidly if we were not to lose the person," Rudenstine says...