Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here the race is a deadlock between Robert Duvall's preacher from The Apostle and Peter Fonda's beekeeper from Ulee's Gold. Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets) and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog) have already gotten more than their fair share of Oscars in the past; Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) is too new to the game...
...That's what hurts the most," he explains, "It's a hurting thing when you ask another human being for something and they ignore you. They would treat a dog better than they treat...
...campus unity outside Widener Library, that bastion of cold impersonality. As I walked by, I noticed a large, and perhaps more noticeable, extremely diverse group of people all standing completely still, their attention fixed on something I could not see. As I drew closer, the situation became clear. A dog and a squirrel were locked in a mortal struggle...
...what we had found. The wind blew, but no one shivered. A woman who, in retrospect, sounded quite zombified, quietly said, "We have to save the squirrel." Yet no one moved. I was going to be late for an Expos conference, but it didn't matter. Slowly the dog advanced. The squirrel stopped nibbling, cast a disdainful glance over his shoulder and went right back to munching. The dog took another step, and the squirrel, who didn't appear to be looking, took off like a shot, arriving safely at a nearby tree just before the dog...
John F. Kennedy Jr. expects his political magazine George "will turn a profit in 1999 -- a year ahead of estimates," reports the New York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...