Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wild, Wild West poses this not very pressing question: Can a comedy--we use that term in the broadest possible sense--costing something north of $100 million hope to succeed solely on the basis of special effects, cross-dressing and a vertically challenged villain? The depressing answer, given the apparently endless supply of adolescents with nothing better to do in the summer, is probably...
...unemployed 20-year-old houseguest with no visible means of support and no reason to leave?--but just as a courtesy, I decided to send him notice of my arrival. Already I had in hand a friendly letter from White, written a year or two before in answer to a fan letter I'd sent him. So I mailed him a note letting him know that I would soon be taking our friendship, as we say in the '90s, to another level...
...famous athlete had swirled for years in California, where she played junior tennis and attended La Jolla Country Day School. Dark-complexioned Alexandra, 6 ft. 1 in and powerfully built, had shrugged off the talk, commenting only that her Caucasian mother had played both parental roles. That pat answer might once have been enough, but her run at Wimbledon renewed the speculation. Last week a Florida newspaper published a birth certificate listing her father as Julius Winfield Erving II. That's basketball legend Dr. J, the dignified, eloquent superstar whose spectacular play, and class off the court, helped lift...
...showdown between Bush and Gore, and the emphasis placed on environmental policy will be a clear way to distinguish between the two candidates. Is the public informed and mature enough to understand the importance of moving away from fossil fuels and making it a key election issue? If the answer is yes, Bush will lose. ROBERT MUNRO Vancouver...
...book has been controversial, not because Mahbubani offers a particularly lurid answer to the title question--actually, he equivocates--but because of his belief that Asia is destined for greater world power, at American expense. Critics have called him anti-Western, but Mahbubani's argument is really with Western arrogance, with leaders who insist capitalism and democracy are the answer for all nations. In fact, he says, the West's hubris is accelerating its decline and polluting relations with proud, ambitious nations such as China and Japan...