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...THIS point that one makes the fatal mistake of asking if anyone knows a good joke. In such an environment, the response can be devastating...
...daughter (Fanny Ardant) is sympathetic but admonitory: "No man, especially a good man, can keep two women happy." He does, though. He keeps his daughters happy and his wife almost forgiving. In embracing these Gallic cliches, Next Summer creates an imaginary ideal family, one with adulteries, frustrations and near fatal diseases, but also love, loyalty, intelligence, passion, beauty. It's Father Knows Best in the French style...
Lauren hired Strom in 1972, in the midst of near fatal financial growing pains. Even though Polo's revenues were galloping ahead at the time, Lauren suddenly discovered that his enterprise was almost bankrupt because of poor financial management and the costs of headlong expansion. To save the company, Lauren pumped his entire $100,000 savings into the firm and offered Strom a share of the business to come aboard from a management job with Norman Hilton, Lauren's early patron and manufacturer...
...faint, that Iran could begin to extend its control deeper into Iraq and then through the gulf is too serious to be ignored. Windows in Kuwait already rattle from Iranian artillery bombardments just 15 miles away. Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states are growing increasingly nervous. "Complacency can be fatal," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer who has kept a close eye on Iran. "The ramifications of a possible Iranian victory are just so enormous that we've got to think them through...
...trying to determine how long the reactor's turbine generators would continue to operate as a result of inertia in the event of an unforeseen reactor shutdown. To prevent the automatic safety systems from interfering with the experiment, the technicians disconnected them, opening the way for a chain of fatal mishaps. The consequence was an explosion and fire that for more than a week spewed streams of radioactive material into the atmosphere above the Soviet Union and across Eastern and Western Europe...