Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carolco Pictures was the producer of such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos. Now it's scrounging around for old props. After the huge, expensive stinkball Cutthroat Island was wrapped, some items weremissing. Oddly enough, a cannon, some maps, a peg leg and one of GEENA DAVIS' outfits turned up in Planet Hollywood Helsinki, co-owned by the movie's director and Davis' spouse RENNY HARLIN (the one with longer hair than MATTHEW MODINE's). Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission. Harlin's people say the props were given to the director because...
...took the oath of office. In his 25-minute speech, Clinton brushed over specifics, touching on inspirational themes. He called on Americans to transcend their differences and to open the doors of education and opportunity to all in what he called a new era and a new land. Cannon fire punctuated the applause that followed as some 250,000 people withstood near-freezing temperatures on the Mall to witness this celebration of American self-government. Though this Inauguration was a smaller, less lavish affair than Clinton's Hollywood-style blowout in 1993, the crowd seemed jubilant, buoyed by the gospel...
...Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There are also electronic-dance-music forms like Jungle. "We see 1997 as a time of exploration in the music biz," says MTV's Schuon. Explains Lisa Cortes, former president of Loose Cannon Records: "People are hungry for different stories." While alternative rock tended to be mostly white, the newer genres tend to be multiethnic. The alternative to alternative could be bands that look less like a stereotype of suburbia and more like America...
...view we can either mature voluntarily or adopt my cannon-fodder proposition. I have heard that there is nothing quite like the roar of a machine gun to wash away childish arrogance. On the other hand, a trial by fire might not work after all. I've asked a few acquaintances about how they'd feel about fighting in a world war and they've all given me the same response. They beam proudly and reply, "I'd dodge the draft...
...Democrat usually votes against his party on economic and social issues, opposing gun control and federal funding of abortion and supporting mandatory parental notification of minors' abortions. His sights set on a fourth term, he has tried to build up his coffers, but he's facing multimillionaire Christopher Cannon, who was outspending him 2 to 1. In July Orton joined 65 other House members in calling for renewed investigation into whether tobacco ads encourage minors to smoke...