Word: chancier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman and his wife (Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd) from marital misbehavior that threatens his enterprise. He can't, in general, prevent blighted human nature from...
...Croatia suddenly balks at being a stop on the pipeline, there are chancier options. Heavy equipment can be flown into the U.N.-controlled Sarajevo airfield -- at least until the Serbs close it down. Ammunition and light weapons can be parachuted into the region by the same C-130 aircraft the U.S. has used for humanitarian missions. With arms, though, the planes would have to fly lower to the ground to ensure that the weapons reach their pinpointed targets -- and do not fall into Serbian hands...