Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schedule and over budget. It's hardly the first time he's been here--his last film, True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, started out costing $60 million and wound up with a final price tag of well over $100 million. "We're doing spectacle," Cameron says unrepentantly during a brief break from filming. "Spectacle costs money...
...ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys' squad should be called the Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team the Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But director Joe Pytka, who also did the McDonald's TV spot that cued the film, too often stands slack-jawed before the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of his live-action star. The movie could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead...
Federal appointees returning to academia cite the executive branch's exhausting pace and their desire to re-establish a family life as reasons for brief tenures in public service...
...education. The ad homed in on voters' perception of Dole; one poll showed that it made 66% of Americans less likely to vote for him. But the spot had no effect on the horse race. Nothing did. With the exception of Dole's resignation and the Republican Convention, two brief bounces for the challenger, the numbers had been static for nine months. Nothing either side did seemed to move them...
...concern with confidentiality, I do not understand their worries about "consistency." Will an Ad Board with student members be "inconsistent?" To oppose our measure based on "consistency" is ridiculous. If the Ad Board is consistently unfair, it needs to be fixed. If in fixing this problem, we enter a brief period of inconsistency (say, the first semester with students on the Board) then it is worth it. This is a moot point anyway since our greatest desire is to make the Ad Board fair and not to change specific cases or threaten consistency. We are concerned with process over consequence...