Word: appeals
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...interest of making a comedy with broad appeal, "In & Out" not surprisingly goes for broad comedy almost every time-when an occasional touch of subtlety might have served just as well, if not better. Still, it succeeds in racking up laughs the old American way-from an Oscars ceremony featuring Matt Dillon as the amusingly air-headed movie star (apparently more a parody of Brad Pitt than of Tom Hanks) and a bad Mel Brooks-style spoof of the kind of inflated dramas that usually reap Oscar accolades, to a wedding recalling "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (which, alas, doesn...
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...Diana as the hunted, Diana as victim, that accounts for her phenomenal worldwide appeal. She is mourned by both men and women, but it's her significance for women that approaches the mystical. In Diana, the fairy-tale princess who was cruelly awakened to the world of hurt, betrayal and humiliation, women of all ages found a mirror image of themselves, however magnified and glamourized. In her ordeals, in the courage, stubbornness and idealism of her attempt to reinvent herself as an independent woman, women have found a model for themselves. It was this Diana, stronger for her own suffering...
Symington, who will be sentenced in November, said he would appeal, but he appeared contrite. "Every once in a while there is salvation in surrender," he tearfully told supporters before stepping down...
BEIJING: As President Jiang Zemin sells his privatization plan to the Communist Party Congress, former premier Zhao Ziyang is causing more headaches for hard-liners by calling for a reassessment of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. The appeal is part of a bid for political rehabilitation by Zhao, who was purged following the massacre for his soft stance toward the protesters, and always maintained that Tiananmen Square was a mistake...