Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House staff members privy to the President's phone logs, and who has emerged as the silent and sturdy pivot for three big players: Clinton, Vernon Jordan and Lewinsky. Currie, whose stricken face as she left the grand jury became a national freeze-frame a month ago, is reportedly calmer now, not terrified of a return engagement but not exactly looking forward to it. She spent Saturday night at the Kennedy Center seeing Don Giovanni, Mozart's opera about a doomed Spanish Lothario whose loyal servant kept a long list of his lovers. Currie's friends were sure...
...this weekend, as the multiplex masses pour into Scream 2 to learn who's trying to carve up poor Neve this time, Williamson will be poring over the decidedly calmer dailies for Dawson's Creek, a coming-of-age TV series whose adolescent anxieties are resolved not by gleaming cutlery but by awkward, angsty dialogue (though the dead-on post-grunge sound track remains the same). Debuting next month on the WB network, the quiet, thoughtful Dawson is about as far removed from slasherdom as you can get and still have L.A.'s BMW brigade return your calls...
Perhaps Anderson's greatest strength as a director is that he knows when to stop. He knows how to pace the film, a quality many young Hollywood directors do not have. Amid the bustle of this crazy world, Anderson often pauses to show us the calmer, sweeter moments, the smaller tragedies, and the overall vapidity of the era. Throughout "Boogie Nights," the soundtrack lowers, the camera sits still, and we get a clearer perspective of what's going...
...days later, in a calmer state, Gumbel explained that he felt the move by his superiors was simply "bad strategy." He added, "Someone could contend that the story was news and you shouldn't hold news. I don't feel compelled by that argument...
...often desperate search for love. This hope to be loved is in fact a wish to be loved for "what I am." Yet for one of Diana's status, to be loved would be as difficult as manning a canoe through treacherous whitewater rapids; for most people, paddling in calmer waters, with no distractions, no temptations, no ravenous paparazzi, no billionaire playboys pressing $205,000 diamond rings into our hands, this quest for love is not nearly so difficult. The paradox of the celebrity's quest is that she must realize that her "admirers" are drawn...