Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this dumbed-down universe, the prospect of Batman Forever gave some hope. The series' first two films, directed by Tim Burton, were the top summer hits of 1989 and 1992; Batman Returns was also a wonderful film. Joel Schumacher, director of Forever, hasn't Burton's creepy poetic vibes, but in The Client he showed real storytelling talent. He also wanted to give the series a fresh look, with a new Batman-Val Kilmer for Michael Keaton-in a new costume and car, both retooled in fine Corinthian leather. Even Gotham gets a make-over...
...Beijing lack strategic vision. They also contend that public hectoring and flip-flops over human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and now Taiwan have created dissonance in China policy: a U.S. trade official talks of "an orchestra in which each player plays his own music, and there is no conductor." Cautions Burton Levin, director of the Asia Society in Hong Kong: "If the U.S. harangues, it strengthens the hands of the xenophobes in China and weakens those forces that want to move toward a less authoritarian society. The U.S. can't improve China's values by stamping its feet." That is particularly...
...level. Such facts raise embarrassing questions for the Clinton Administration, which fought so hard for NAFTA and has bailed out Mexico by issuing loan guarantees that will cost the U.S. $20 billion if Mexico defaults. "Mexico is not a stable country right now," says Indiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. "It's almost, although not quite, a narco-democracy...
Given such long and unrelenting scrutiny, most archaeologists had pretty much decided there were no major discoveries left to make in this part of Egypt. Britain's James Burton had burrowed into the site of Tomb 5 back in 1820, and decided that there was nothing inside. A dismissive Carter used its entryway as a place to dump the debris he was hauling out of Tut's tomb...
Then, in the late 1980s, came the proposed parking area and Weeks' concern. His 1988 foray made it clear that the tomb wasn't as dull as Burton had thought. Elaborate carvings covered the walls and referred to Ramesses II, whose own tomb was just 100 ft. away. The wall inscriptions on the companion crypt mentioned two of Ramesses' 52 known sons, implying some of the royal offspring might have been buried within. And then came last week's astonishing announcement...