Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BUZZ] Got bad buzz for notion that Hitler was no big U.S. threat; even infuriated Republicans...
Gates: The only thing that we know for sure that would be bad for consumers is anything that blocked us from being able to innovate Windows or anything that made it so that when people buy Windows they don't know what is in it. Beyond those two principles, we'll be as pragmatic...
...bad for a guy who went for his first audition at 15 to chase a girl, Amy, who was sweet on his older brother. Hoffman grew up in suburban Rochester, N.Y., a baseball jock who often attended regional-theater productions with his mother. "When I was in, like, seventh grade, I saw Robert Downey Jr. in Alms for the Middle Class," he recalls. "I loved it. Loved it." High school acting led to drama school at New York University, off-Broadway theater and, finally, Hollywood...
...misprint) in the school play, and though occasionally exasperated by her mother, adores her funky, spunky spirit. As do we, for McTeer, the English actress who stunned Broadway in A Doll's House two seasons back, is a wonder--sweet and fierce, a creature of good instincts and bad (but reparable) judgments. She's probably never going to get anywhere very grand, but she's going to get there intact. You suspect her child--her only true love--may do better than that. Meantime, we have this movie--full of acceptant, sidelong glances at human quirkiness--to delight...
...Athens shortly before Wednesday, Nov. 17. That sensitive anniversary commemorates a 1973 crackdown on pro-democracy students and is traditionally marked by demonstrations against the U.S. Moreover, Greeks are particularly angry at Washington this year over NATO's bombing of Kosovo. Still, "no one believed security conditions were so bad that the President could not come," says a senior American official. U.S. diplomats tried to blame Athens for the scheduling gaffe, insisting Greek Premier COSTAS SIMITIS changed his mind after promising U.S. Ambassador NICK BURNS that no permit would be issued for a large protest in front...