Word: ado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road kill. Then you notice that these movies are doubly subversive: they not only subvert themselves, they rebel against the timid rules of traditional filmmaking. In this sense, bad movies are the first modernist movies, as the French long ago realized. "Learn to go see the 'worst' films," wrote Ado Kyrou in the 1957 Le Surrealisme au Cinema. "They are sometimes sublime...
Most economists support the change, although it's not easy to keep them from yawning. "In many ways, it's much ado about nothing," says David Blitzer, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. "But it's raised consciousness in terms of imports and exports and how we measure and think about them. We should probably do it every other year...
There may be nothing Sam Skinner won't do for Bush. During a 1989 G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a Secret Service agent, careful not to alarm the crowd, inched toward the head table on all fours. He tapped Skinner on the foot and said, "Follow me, sir." Without ado, the Secretary of Transportation got down on his hands and knees and crawled between tables, chairs and legs to the rear of the ballroom, then stepped into a waiting limousine and motored to the White House Situation Room, where he planned the California earthquake cleanup...
...years ago, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden ripped off part of a speech from a British politician, Neil Kinnock. Then he had the audacity to tell the media that the hullaballoo over his plagiarism was "much ado about nothing...
...industry spokesman dismissed the letter as "much ado about nothing" and implied that the officials are seeking more power, not better service. In cable's corner is the White House, which opposes reregulation of cable, hoping instead to address consumer complaints through the Federal Communications Commission...