Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess it was a good race because I got to run really relaxed since I was pretty much out in front," said McGraw, who ran a 61.37. "It was also bad that I wasn't pushed...
...than heroes of an Arthurian legend. Wearing stuffed animals--those archetypal symbols of sweetness and caring--on their heads like helmets, they perform an absurd dance as a show of force. Paulus and costume designers Amy Rose Berliner '02 and Amanda Whitman '01 toss around concepts of good and bad, passivity and force, absurdity and authority more freely than professors of postmodern literary theory...
...Unfortunately, whenever the new movie offers such a scene, bad editing or poor acting cancels its effect. Watching the movie, one aches for a certain glory, but the camera never seems to linger long enough, and the awe and agony that pervaded the original movies never registers in the faces of Ewan McGregor or Liam Neeson. When those actors, respectively playing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon, "swim" into an underwater metropolis at the start of the movie, one feels a tinge of wonder, but it is immediately muddled by over-done special effects. Often, the music is off (John...
Hollywood bad guys usually get their comeuppance; the end for geopolitical bad guys is seldom as satisfying. As the Kosovo war grinds down toward an outcome untenable at the multiplex, NATO faces some uncomfortable choices over the eventual fate of Slobodan Milosevic. According to French reports Thursday, Milosevic has signaled that he's prepared to accept the NATO-Russia peace deal, but only if he's guaranteed immunity from prosecution as a war criminal. "Milosevic imposed the same condition on the Bosnia peace agreement," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He has a lot of blood on his hands...
...funds for Oklahoma," he says. But Washington senator Slade Gorton's gold-mine rider directly overturns an administration decision to block the mine, and Clinton still has the political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they'd have to clean it up and send it back." Hopefully sometime before NATO has to start dropping water balloons...