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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need...to construct a curriculum that takes account of our times, of the intellectual concerns and intellectual battles of our time," he said...
...last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long as no proposed action runs counter to the interests of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China). Otherwise, it will be hamstrung again...
Marshall also enlists the entire town in a supporting role. The local sheriff (Stuart Pankin), town doctor (Henry Jones), mortician (Peter Jason) and others help construct a humorous and more importantly, credible sketch of a town which has come under siege. As much as anything, it is well scripted characters tightly-drawn by the director and almost flawlessly executed by the cast which makes Arachnophobia the success...
...last manager, Jacqueline Smith, who stubbornly refuses to say goodbye to the facility. Night and day, through storm and sunshine, Smith, 39, has camped out in a pup tent in front of the fenced-in property, courteously greeting tourists and adamantly opposing plans to renovate the Lorraine and construct a $9 million Lorraine Civil Rights Museum. She thinks the place should be used to house the homeless in tribute to King...
...Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villain's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. And their tone is high facetiousness; the whole construct is an elaborate joke...