Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could these be the same scientists who centuries ago said the world was flat? Could these be the same scientists who said we could never put a man on the moon? Could these be the same scientists who said no one would ever jump higher than 8 feet...
...actors ease for the most part into the set, often flat characters that surround the charged plot line, with occasional exceptions. Lawyer Jake, despite death threats or a torched house, persists in defending, against all logic, and McConaughey's boyish good looks and exquisite hair carry him through admirably. Yet it is often more compelling to watch Kiefer Sutherland, a brother of a slain redneck, encountering evil greater than himself during his Klan warm-up meeting, or Chris Cooper (again as a sheriff, markedly different from his "Lone Star" role) grimacing his way through shock and pain...
...bonding" trip with her daughter; the couple who fell in love as flight attendants 21 years ago and worked side by side on the New York-Paris route; the insurance-company executive who hoped to finally strike it rich by cutting a deal in Europe; the French "flat-picking" guitarist, a protege of Chet Atkins', who was on his way home after being honored at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. The other passengers ranged from TV producer to unemployed construction worker. All their lives, however, had come to a final intersection...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Bob Dole got it half right. He understands the value of promising a fat tax cut in an election year, but he was caught flat-footed when the Clinton White House shot his plan full of holes the day before he announced it. Soldiering on, Dole announced today that his economic master plan will "downsize" the IRS, while making taxes "fairer, flatter and simpler." The plan may include sweeping capital gains tax exemptions for small business owners. While Dole himself is not ready to put a figure on a possible tax cut, his top aides say a plan...
Since the German musical scale contains an "H" (their "H" is our "B" and their "B" is our "B-flat"), Bach's name spells out a chromatic and eerie four-note melody. According to his son, at the point in the "Art of the Fugue" when Bach brought in that melody, he died. The book is full of such strange coincidences and upheavals...