Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign trail, the Republican candidates are competing with one another to reveal a little heart. In his response to the State of the Union speech, Bob Dole spoke not only about tucking children into bed but also of how "our battles will not be about numbers [but] about the character of our nation." Last week in the town of Clinton, Iowa, Dole beseeched a crowd not to dismiss him and his fellow Republicans as being cold-blooded about Medicare: "We have feelings, and we care about people," he said. Last week Lamar Alexander visited a teen drug-treatment center...
...paying"--read rich--"client." These days, it is difficult to get in-patient coverage at all for detoxification. "The number of in-patient treatment programs has declined precipitously," says Monica Oss, editor of Open Minds, a behavioral-health-industry newsletter. "Between 1988 and 1993, the average number of patient bed days dropped from...
...King's English. As every teacher knows, kids won't touch Shakespeare unless he is made all hot and gaudy and R-rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown...
...never mind!), the movie breaks the rules of farce; its characters begin as caricatures, then fill out into complex people whose openness to love surprises no one more than themselves. Brisk and sassy, French Twist gives great fun. It's a nice way to start the movie year: in bed with three genial lunatics...
...party now has three days to elect a new premier. The top contenders for his post are two economists, Defense Minister Gerasimos Arsenis and former Industry Minister Costas Simitis. The 76-year-old Papandreou, who has been on and off life support, reportedly signed the resignation from his hospital bed in Athens. He did not quit as head of the party...