Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zahedi's problem is two-fold: he can't let go of control when he wants to, but when he does consciously attempt to take over, he fails. The audience experiences both these inabilities on the trip to Vegas. In the car, Bobby panics because to the evident lack of interesting events. He decides to reenact a scene where Amin yells at George, abandoning his entire premise for the movie. But the reenactment sounds contrived and Bobby despairs. The bumpy and tire-some car ride finally ends in their Las Vegas hotel suite...
...grounds. By paying money to Wigand and agreeing to indemnify him against a lawsuit, some contended, CBS had put itself at serious risk. Attorneys who have been involved in litigation against the tobacco industry, however, insisted that the network was needlessly timid. "I think it's appalling they would fold over such an iffy theory of law," says John P. Coale, a Washington lawyer who represents 50 law firms pursuing a class action against tobacco companies...
...despised the "traitors" among us, Jews who were trying to ingratiate themselves with "the goyim" through a fawning and potentially fatal moderation. If the Jewish people was indeed an endangered species, in a world as inhospitable to them as Pluto is to humans, then anyone within the fold who threatened to undermine the Jews' resolve to withstand eternal siege was an enemy far more dangerous than the foe waiting outside the gates...
...instead of blindly following someone who may do a better job," she says. But she is skeptical about Dole. "He is the most political of the candidates," she says, "and he jumps back and forth on some issues. He's a compromiser. I don't want someone who will fold if the pressure...
...first month the catalog brought in more than $200,000 in sales. If it succeeds, Art Matters hopes to double its endowment in five years. If not, the foundation may simply fold. That would be a blow in an era when the arts are undersupported. "It is important that people realize that art is not an exclusive practice," says Serrano, whose lush photo of a cathedral doorway appears in the foundation's 1996 calendar. "Art is not a radical thing." Maybe not, but as the catalog shows, funding the arts these days requires radical tactics...