Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's cool about Mystery Men is that it is what it's about. Expected to underachieve in a season of teen-boy farces, it triumphs by being its smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there. In the opening scene, director Kinka Usher tries to get a Tim Burton flavor of dark comic hipness and blows it; he is flailing even as Mr. Furious does at first. Usher feels his way to the right tempo and tone, and when he finds it he doesn...
...voice--subtly assertive, and less country twang than cool jazzy pop--hints that, at 42, the tall blond from Ohio has knocked around long enough to have seen and learned a few things. For example: the precarious balance, in matters of love, between whining and wisdom. The people in Richey's songs, as in so much country music, are in rehab from life--nursing themselves out of a heart hurt or taking a baby step back into the big bad world...
...find another set of checkpoints in the dark. This time I behave more maturely. My Schwab partners are Dan Hubbard and Rob Sinclaire, a service-enhancement senior manager. Our Presidio guide is Eddie Freyer, a longtime FBI agent and director of SWAT-team programs. We stride along enjoying the cool, moonlit night. Rob and I discuss our mutual fondness for Tony Hillerman's novels, even imagining we are helping Joe Leaphorn track a killer out there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged by the goodwill of the other three, dare to suggest a shortcut, which saves...
...short periods of time. Then she'd find other reasons to break up with me, so maybe it wasn't your fault. You have an electric car. That's such a cool celebrity thing to have...
George W. Bush likes to joke that when one of his daughters saw how well he was doing in the polls, she told him, "Dad, you're not as cool as they think you are." That's about all we're likely to hear this campaign from either of his 17-year-old twins, Barbara and Jenna. As granddaughters of a President, they are already monitored by the Secret Service, which has asked the campaign to skimp on the details of how the pair spent the summer...