Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week in November brings the Rolex Indoor Championships. Fish claims his team has a shot there, too. But unless Fish and his crew can pull off a minor miracle, the truth is that optimism in the face of adversity is about the only thing going for this squad...
...better not to regard this crew as a team at all, but rather as an ensemble of excellent actors on a goofy, lively lark. Sure, they gain and lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
...where Dylan howled and scowled, Bob smiles. In a wonderful vignette, Bob sits at a computer, absentmindedly singing one of his tunes, then notices that a documentary crew's camera is on him. He pauses a second, then flashes the smile. Like Clinton, Bob knows that no matter what the provocation, it's best not to seem annoyed. He'll be no Nixon. To blow his cool is to blow the campaign. Bob has perfected the notion of the dimple as political statement. And maybe he has no anger in him, which is to say no beliefs worth defending with...
...Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks to run it. then he'll scoot right back to State. Says an aide: "A big part of it is putting the right crew in place, which we definitely don't have right...
...upper branches provide home and shelter for the endangered spotted owl. And then one day you hear the sound of approaching chain saws. The owls start to flap around you in alarm. And then you see the lumberjacks approaching your trunk, and you realize that the foreman of the crew is actually Elvis...