Word: dump
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...third and final of his policy proposals as his train neared Chicago: a $1.9 billion environmental package that includes $1.3 billion for cleaning two-thirds of all Superfund sites by 2000. "I want an America in the 21st Century where no child has to live near a toxic waste dump," Clinton said to crowds gathered near the Kalamazoo river as he continued to press his theme that while Bob Dole represents a bridge to the past, a second Clinton administration would provide a bridge to the future. Like other proposals the president has offered in recent days, the environmental program...
...stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves her in the murderous machinations of corrupt rich people. But it forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, according to Schickel, he misses novelist Carl Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy...
Walking down the streets of New Bedford in the early evening, one sees no such vibrancy. In place of the drills and dump trucks, the streets are lined with boarded-up shop windows and occupied by the wandering homeless and jobless...
...trouble containing its most damaging story. In the FBI-file scandal, by failing to explain who hired Livingstone and by failing to release the delicious fact that Livingstone was a Chicken George co-conspirator in 1992, the White House handed the Republicans an extra week of controversy. "I know, dump it all out fast and make it go away," says press secretary Mike McCurry. "But they're not letting this go away. If we had got the facts out quickly, the Republicans would have investigated our investigation. We had to sit it out." White House officials say they never pulled...
That's a great pile of narrative nuts and bolts and, dutifully sorting through it, Bergman forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin--smart, spunky and a former FBI employee--is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, he misses Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman's fastidious...