Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third-highest grossing movie released this year. Next year she co-stars in . . . a Woody Allen picture. But right now she is a director, and a damned fine one, of a small-budget film. Little Man Tate is something sensitive with three people: a gifted child (Adam Hann- Byrd), his sympathetic teacher (Dianne Wiest) and the mother, a defiant single parent, torn between love and loss...
What she told the actors is a collegial secret, except for her instructions to young Adam Hann-Byrd. "Adam is a very realistic kid, very aware," she says. "I wouldn't know how to direct a kid to be that way. So I'd load him up with a lot of technical things -- kids usually connect with the technical -- and then he would just relax. Or I'd say, 'Make your eyebrows like you're scared,' and that would make him a little nervous. And then I'd get what I wanted...
...network newscasts were over and deadlines for early editions of the New York Times and Washington Post had passed. The public galleries in the Senate chamber were deserted, and only a couple of reporters lingered in the press room. Surveying the emptiness last Wednesday night, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia decided conditions were ideal for the Senate to hand itself a whopping pay raise. As if by magic, 98 of the 100 Senators appeared out of the night to vote, 53 to 45, to raise their annual salaries from $101,900 to $125,100 -- an increase of nearly...
...Budget Boys. During last fall's deficit-reduction talks, Sununu's high- handed style greatly offended the old bulls of Congress. The last straw for Senator Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat, came when Sununu plopped his feet onto the conference table and read newspapers while the others negotiated. "Your conduct is arrogant," Byrd thundered. "It is rude." And he vowed that Sununu would live to regret...
Pork-Barrel Lifetime Achievement Scroll: ROBERT BYRD This senior Democrat really knows how to deliver the bacon. Chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, he lately had two federal agencies moved to his home state of West Virginia...