Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie is filled with one thrilling chase scene after another, from apartments to hospitals to bridges to darkened theaters and finally to the dilapidated closed wing of a mental hospital. Jerry's apartment is one of the most intriguing settings in the movie. It is furnished with file cabinets, at least a dozen copies of Catcher in the Ryethat were found in the possession of at least two famous assassins, a poster of John Lennon and magazine clippings and sketches covering every inch of wall space. His refrigerator is filled with locked metal canisters of coffee and tapioca, whose combinations...
...seen it as a kid. Installed below a towering statue of a decidedly muscular Christ were several video monitors equipped with touch screens. Each screen had a menu of philosophical questions. I selected "What is the purpose of life?" although I was tempted to cut to the chase by touching "Is there life after death?" Instantly a robotic male voice answered, "To see if we will follow the plan of our Heavenly Father, each of us is given two great gifts. One is time, the other freedom of choice... Every day, every hour, every minute of our span of mortal...
...wouldn't call the case a mystery, because he leaves behind voluminous amounts of evidence," says an FBI agent involved in the chase. But suddenly what had been a frustrated and some say haphazard manhunt became a furious one. The FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Cunanan's arrest. On Saturday night, Miami Beach police said they were exploring the possibility that he may be masquerading as a woman to elude capture. "He may have shaved all of his body hair to enhance this appearance," said a spokesman. Cunanan was fingered as a possible suspect...
While some Democrats blame the high cost of political advertising during the '96 race for the party's overseas chase of unrestricted "soft money," Lippo funds had started flowing four years earlier, according to checks produced at the hearings. After Clinton secured the nomination in 1992, the Riady family, which owns Lippo, contributed $480,000 to Democrats, most of it scattered quietly to state parties. The same year, Lippo provided an additional $50,000 to the national party. The money was sent in by a U.S. subsidiary controlled by Huang and identified as a political gift in his expense report...
...Vanity Fair, PI's appeal lies in the fact that it offers us the rare hope of seeing celebrated figures break through their wrapping. PI is at its best when panelists become slightly unhinged, when they start behaving like Ricki Lake guests in higher tax brackets, as Chevy Chase recently did when he attacked producer Steven Bochco and ranted, quite seriously, that people should be reading Thomas Hardy instead of watching...