Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oscar and Lucinda Bold heiress, sensitive clergyman, sinful passion, a trek into the wilderness. Sounds like one of those "classic" novels you'll never get around to. Don't despair. Gillian Armstrong and her stars, Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett, find something feverishly unsettling under the black robes of Victorian propriety...
...know where OSCAR AND LUCINDA is heading--toward the kind of happy, reconciling ending that usually crowns romantic period adventures. Don't get too comfortable with that thought. For this story, adapted from Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel by Laura Jones and directed by Gillian Armstrong, is as wayward as its main characters--comic, fierce, digressive. Its business is to turn sure-thing expectations into a game of chance, and provide us with that rarity--a genuinely eccentric yet deeply insinuating film. --By Richard Schickel...
...PLAYERS] Ralph Fiennes; dir. Gillian Armstrong (Little Women...
...guns, firing double canister at the converging Confederates until a third shot got him. Right behind him is buried Judson Kilpatrick, a general considered so profligate with the lives of his men that they called him "Kill Cavalry." At the end of the row, under an obelisk, lies George Armstrong Custer. Or what may be Custer. When Custer was disinterred a year after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, diggers found that animals had scattered the bones. They took their best guess. Cemeteries reward the ironist...
...same day that AT&T replaced faltering CEO Robert Allen with former Hughes Electronics boss C. Michael Armstrong, the phone giant put its staggering $14 billion Universal Card business on the block. AT&T terrorized the credit-card industry and started a trend by introducing, with spectacular results, the no-fee-for-life Universal Card in 1990. But the lack of a fee made AT&T dependent on interest charges that many customers refused to rack up. According to Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research, holders of as many as 60% of AT&T's 18 million Universal Cards...