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...space of a few hours, our shaggy protagonist is at the end of his rope. During a trippy-freak-out-on-the-bed scene (which bears a strong resemblance to the trippy-freak-out-on-the-bed scene in Trainspotting), Robert comes up with a solution: kidnap his ex-boss' daughter Celine (a painfully typecast Diaz), drive away and improvise from there...
...describes her character as "inquistive" and "adventurous." Shelby is an intern at a police station, and "despite the warnings of her detective boss," conducts her own investigations, narrowly escaping danger, sometimes solving the case, other times...
...came up against discrimination and were beaten down. Linda McVeigh Mathews, a distinguished journalist, resigned from a newspaper when her editors would not allow her to cover the same foreign beat as her journalist husband, and has just left another paper after being "emotionally battered" by her boss. In a variety of corporations Marilyn Wilt "encountered the glass ceiling again and again" and quit the business world to "empower" herself...
Which is why his response to the latest White House blunder says so much about Bill Clinton's presidency now. Four years ago, a staff member would rather have resigned than be the one to tell the boss about the ill-timed release of the videotapes made of Clinton's coffees with big-money donors. Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment. "He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much...
...over the years, memorizing one verse after another, you build up an intense interest in a place like that. You imagine walking in and finding yourself in a movie--the maitre d' takes your coat and hat and nods toward a corner banquette, and there sits Fred MacMurray, your boss at Acme, stubbing out a Lucky, grinning, and you realize it's all true--you're assistant manager now, you got the big raise, you and Sue and Becky and Little Buddy can move out to Sunny Acres...