Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half of the movie dominates the whole, even though he has three short scenes in the second half before the denouement. Tatsuya Nakadai (of Sword of Doom, as students in Heroes for Zeroes may realize) radiates competence as the police in charge of the case. He resembles Dale Cooper, of Twin Peaks fame, complete with slicked back hair and stylish, dark suits...
...which was made on a $2 million budget versus "Slacker"'s $30,000, is amusing and sophisticated entertainment. Linklater follows various groups of classmates around on the afternoon, evening and night of the last day of high school, accompanied by a nostalgic '70s soundtrack of ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, etc. There aren't main characters in the traditional sense, but the camera rests longest on the high school quarterback Pink (Jason London), and on soon-to-be-first-year Mitch (Wiley Wiggins). If Pink wants to stay on the football team, he has to sign a new anti-drug...
...succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon, now a candidate for mayor of Boston, considered the aw-shucks Baker "a great television event waiting to happen. He's Cooper, Ray Milland, all the great movie faces wrapped into...
Baker -- no Cooper, but a classic Yank with a long, friendly, shovel-shaped face -- begins his new assignment on Sunday with Selected Exits, a biographical tribute to Welsh author and raconteur Gwyn Thomas, starring Anthony Hopkins. Already Baker has found that the job is like sailing a ship in a very small bottle. "Most of the time you have two or 2 1/2 minutes," he says. "That's one page, double-spaced. My columns are three pages. On TV, that would be like being Hubert Humphrey -- Will this guy ever shut...
...while Clinton is being highly flexible on details, he is adamant on some basic principles. Several are echoed by the most thorough alternative plans, including one proposed last week by 22 Republican Senators and nearly identical bills likely to be introduced this week by two Democrats, Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Some amalgam of these proposals could become the principal bipartisan alternative to Clinton's plan...