Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the accident, when they hovered around the car, insulted one another and vied for the best photo angles. Stephan confronted them with eight witnesses on June 5, but many discrepancies remain. Road tests last May proved that all the motorcycles and scooters involved in the chase were powerful enough to keep up with the Mercedes. Lawyers for the photographers argue that Paul's drunkenness and reckless driving caused the accident, and point to the Ritz's responsibility in allowing Paul to take the wheel. Lawyers for the Ritz-Fayed camp claim that the aggressive pursuit by the paparazzi...
Pullman, 36, has been working this area since the early '90s, first for investment firm Gruntal and then in partnership with Fahnestock & Co. Last month he shook off those names and set up the Pullman Group to chase celebrity bonds in a big way and, he hopes, brand himself as the top name in this esoteric field. He and others say the bonds will ultimately extend to all sorts of intellectual property that generates a steady stream of income: patents, authors' royalties and writers' residuals from TV reruns and film libraries...
Each of the writers finds something different in New York, but most seem to express sentiments similar to Heather Chase's description of the city as "largely populated by self-selected orphans, nomads and people with variable identities." New York emerges from the descriptions of the writers as lonely and forbidding, its people are career oriented and power hungry, interested in making connections rather than friendships. Whether it be a woman looking for marriage or a producer looking for patrons for an experimental theatre company, the writers encounter coldness and indifference. Some have escaped from New York for other destinations...
...pulled into the case an old Stein colleague, Sam Dash, a fellow member of the small legal freemasonry that had survived the Watergate hearings intact. On Tuesday, July 21, Starr himself called Stein and arranged a meeting for the next day at Dash's house in Chevy Chase...
Decalogue is different; stuff happens. This series--with each 53- to 58-minute episode dramatizing one of the Ten Commandments through the lives of the residents of a Warsaw apartment house--revels in the convolutions of melodrama. There are two brutal killings, a few attempted suicides, even a car chase. A perfect child dies. Another child is told, Chinatown-style, that her sister is really her mother. At times Decalogue plays like a Polish Melrose Place...