Word: armed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, my first attempt was a relative failure: The arm that I lifted with so much promise would drop quickly back to my side, the victim of what appeared to be an occupied taxi coming near. As the cab whizzed by, I saw that it was indeed empty, my lack of confidence punishable with a fine of a few minutes standing unnecessarily in the smothering D.C. heat...
...next attempt, like the first, was also unsuccessful. This time, the few cabs that passed by were actually full and my outstretched arm proved to be an insufficient lure...
Across the intersection, however, I saw an oasis. Dotting the sea of metallic car roofs that shimmered in the heat at the traffic light were several white taxi signs. Once again, I stretched out my arm, looking toward the throng of cars and hoping, praying even, that one of those cabbies might catch...
...WINNER] BOB DOLE: war wounds paralyzed right arm; beat prostate cancer...
...natty to tatty. DAVID KELLEY seemed to have come straight from a backyard barbecue to the premiere of Lake Placid, which he wrote. The film's star BRIDGET FONDA at least looked well groomed. At the premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, NICOLE KIDMAN turned up the glamour (adorning her arm with what looked like a painful piece of jewelry), while husband and co-star TOM CRUISE dispatched with elegance in favor of studied nonformality. And surely ADAM SANDLER (seen here with co-star ROB SCHNEIDER) could have found a fresh T shirt for the premiere of his film Big Daddy...