Word: christian
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...which humanity is capable. The central character is Tom Wells (Nicolas Cage), a highly trained private investigator who handles the dirt of the rich and famous. At the beginning, we sec Wells working a surveillance case for a senator before he's called to the home of Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter), the well--endowed widow of a recently deceased industrial tycoon. Rich folk always seem to have eccentric little possessions, and Mr. Christian left behind a humdinger in his safe--an eight millimeter film that shows a teenage girl being brutally murdered. Mrs. Christian wants Wells to determine whether...
...that she is away from home, Stacy says that "Antoinette has the challenge of not letting her Christian standards go down," and she adds that "that's a big challenge when you're away from everyone and your home church...
...made it through junior high loyally preferring Marlon Brando to Luke Perry and Jimmy Dean to Christian Slater, I'll never know. Years before I first blushingly kissed a boy in the eighth grade, I could already recite Humphrey Bogart's monologue to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. After a particularly heartrending breakup at age 16, I cried myself a cathartic river watching Cary Grant, waiting futilely for Deborah Kerr atop the Empire State Building, in "An Affair to Remember...
...made it through junior high loyally preferring Marlon Brando to Luke Perry and Jimmy Dean to Christian Slater, I'll never know. Years before I first blushingly kissed a boy in the eighth grade, I could already recite Humphrey Bogart's monologue to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. After a particularly heartrending breakup at age 16, I cried myself a cathartic river watching Cary Grant, waiting futilely for Deborah Kerr atop the Empire State Building, in "An Affair to Remember...
...military has governed ever since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished...