Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part because one can order a computer in every way comparable to the PS/1 from a mail-order discounter like Gateway and pay up to $1,000 less than IBM is asking. Consumers love it; the industry is in full panic. "This is no longer a business for the faint of heart," says James Cannavino, head of IBM's personal-systems division, "and if you think things are tough now, there are no rest periods ahead...
Herrell's ice cream is the basis for its reputation, but its menu also boasts several types of yogurt for the faint-at-heart-ice-cream-eating-wannabees. Don't overlook the chocolate whipped cream or the carrot cake, either...
...festival, one excellent film is a fluke, two are a faint promise. Cannes '93 has showcased a dozen or so delights, including Mike Leigh's comic scorcher Naked, from Britain, and Alain Cavalier's potent French film Libera Me, a deadpan document, in wordless closeup, of political prisoners and their torturers in an unnamed country -- any country, alas. Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, a sequel of sorts to his great Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both...
There was little doubt that the Serbian leadership badly misjudged the forces they had armed and set loose more than a year ago, and dangerously underestimated the will of the fighters to press on. The faint of heart, even those in political power, will now be ruthlessly cut out of the loop. Ever more convinced that they are the victims of history, the fighters and their political allies are unable to acknowledge that in any weighing of atrocities, the Serbs bear the heaviest load of guilt. On the bicycle path as in the so- called parliament, only the suffering...
There were certainly no letdowns in this one, and the "second half collapse" seems to be a thing of the past. A faint and distant nightmare...