Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researching the role of a media-obsessed cable weathergirl for the film To Die For, so you decide to lie in a hotel bed for three days, eating room-service food and watching TV nonstop. And who's your bunkmate on this field trip into junk culture? Tom Cruise...
...homework paid off for Kidman. To Die For has won the 28-year-old Australian the most lustrous reviews of her career. Told in a blur of tabloid headlines, mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work...
...says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz's posh girlfriend--her sharpest movie role before To Die...
Third, and most important to me, Mr. Hayashi claims "some of our competitors would die" to know how many Harvard students take his course, Please. At Kaplan they may sit around fretting about their competitors' numbers. --A. Robert Freiser, Director, Graduate Training, Test Well/LSAT...
While takeover attempts and mergers have been rumored, most experts still assert that Apple's prospects for survival are good. Its core business, truly excellent software that makes computers easy to use, has hooked some 20 million die-hard customers. "There are times when you look at Apple and you see the Wang of the future: the once highflyer that became irrelevant to what's going on," says Coursey. But, he adds, "yes, the Mac still works better. Yes, it has a better operating system. And yes, Apple is headed in a good direction...