Word: darn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return you were preparing. Gerstner's Big Blue will offer solutions to help point you safely to the future. If the old IBM was father Thomas Watson in his white shirt next to a multimillion-dollar mainframe, the new IBM is Uncle Lou, sleeves rolled up, getting the darn thing to work...
...could possibly have felt left out--not if they glanced at a newspaper the next morning, or watched television news, or listened to a radio talk show, or tapped into any one of dozens of computer Websites. In fact, for the next 24 hours they could hardly escape the darn thing. Just a random sampling...
...mundane reasons First Wives is a hit. It has three stars playing to their strengths: Midler the canny yenta, Keaton mining lodes of pruney anguish, Hawn a glorious hoot encased in her collagenized lips and sprawling ego. And before the film gets haggard in Act III, it's pretty darn funny, thanks to director Hugh Wilson (who wove a camaraderie of losers in his TV show WKRP in Cincinnati), screenwriter Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias) and rewriter Paul Rudnick (The Addams Family...
First Wives is only a movie, and not nearly a perfect one. And its makers are, darn it, men. But it restores a little balance to phallocentric Hollywood. It says women can thrive in the good old '30s way: by being smart, sexy, human. Best of all, it doesn't stand alone, a defiant Thelma without her Louise; instead, it mingles with its sister films in a proud, growing community. If women can create, star in and see more movies like this one, that will be their sweetest revenge...
...first half was a Picasso, then the second half was more like an Andy Warhol. Things were a little wilder and crazier, but still pretty darn good...