Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the past several years, this small town located about five hours from Denver has become internationally famous. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have a ranch near here. Ivana and Donald Trump had their famous blowup over Marla Maples here. Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith breeze in and out of town...
France has had to threaten a major blowup in the E.C. to ward off CAP's immediate demise. In light of the Maastricht debacle and the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco, a war over the CAP might cause a complete E.C. meltdown. Then E.C. would come to stand for "Economic Crisis," and Europe would pull the rest of the world economy down with...
...characters, the writer and an even more unsuccessful photographer (Charles Cioffi). They need each other's respect. Paradoxically, they also need each other's scorn because they are so disappointed that cynicism is the only thing left to trust. They squabble over money and women, but the big blowup is over a moral failing shared with almost every fictive writer: he has "stolen" his own % life, and that of his unknowing and unwilling friend, to transmute into art. Pacino radiates the desperation of a man whose last possession, his faith in his talent, is also his most fragile...
This is not the first time government negligence has caused a blowup in Guadalajara's sewer. A similar leak of chemicals in 1983 sent trees and cars flying in a 10-block area and injured 48 people. There have been other explosions in the country since 1978, including a series of gas explosions on the outskirts of Mexico City in 1984 that killed at least 400 people. Fearing a repeat of the Guadalajara episode, last week officials evacuated sections of Mexico City and Saltillo after finding gas leaks there. The angry public mood in Mexico may give President Carlos Salinas...
...This Australian drama has faults: a short story's facile symmetry and (ugh!) a wacky car chase. But it gets at the mysteries of isolation and obsession. Like another, better movie about a photographer, a park and betrayal, Proof is a testament to what pictures cannot reveal. This is Blowup, wallet-size...