Word: da
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
Families, Museum Struggle Over Schiele In a move that rocks the art world, a Manhattan DA blocks return of two paintings that are suspected Nazi loot...
...DA BULLS Neither Alan Greenspan nor an October shudder halted momentum. And Michael Jordan's team also did well...
...VOLKSWAGEN: "SUNDAY AFTERNOON" Most car ads talk about the car or the life-style of its owner. VW's infectious spot does neither. Instead, it shows two slacker twentysomethings cruising aimlessly around a desolate stretch of Los Angeles in their VW Golf to the monotonous ditty Da Da Da. They retrieve an abandoned chair from the street, only to discard it minutes later after detecting its stench, then drive off, leaving viewers with this message about the car: "It fits your life or the complete lack thereof." The spot breathed new life into its sound-track song, a 1982 release...
...Next comes the question of whether Nichols should get life behind bars or death by injection ? a conviction on conspiracy charges may or may not lead to the death penalty. Add to that the possibility that the Oklahoma City DA succeeds in getting Nichols to stand trial a second time, for the murder of all 168 victims, not just the eight federal agents around which the Denver trial hinged. But there's doubt that any number of convictions will satisfy a city still torn apart by the most murderous act in American history...