Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TRUST. Typical Hal Hartley dialogue: "Will you trust me?" "If you trust me first." In this deadpan romance, the writer-director limns the palship of a pregnant high schooler (Adrienne Shelly) and a sociopath genius (Martin Donovan). Another fond sketch of losers from the down-scale version of Woody Allen...
...last week in preventing the Oakland Tribune from closing down for good. Maynard, the only black owner of a metropolitan newspaper in the U.S., raised the last-minute cash by playing on the rivalry between the paper's largest creditor, the Gannett chain, and that company's retired chief, Allen Neuharth...
Some of the best-known exemplars of the new tropical taste are hidden away in suburban shopping strips. At Chef Allen's in North Miami Beach, Allen Susser's most popular dishes include rock-shrimp hash topped by a mustardy sabayon sauce, followed perhaps by seared citrus-crusted yellowfin tuna with a macedoine of papaya, mango and yellow pepper. At Mark's Place, North Miami diners line up early for Mark Militello's signature dish, curry fried oysters nestled on a tamarind-banana salsa and West Indian bread, all topped with an orange sour cream. "It's a long...
...real possibility, say economists. The government reported last week that the economy grew at a barely measurable 0.4% annualized rate in the second quarter. But it may be premature to celebrate the arrival of good times again. "Usually we shoot right out of an economic hole," says economist Allen Sinai. "This time we're crawling...
...memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until he gets a chance to do it right, from scratch...