Word: foley
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...film version, directed by James Foley (At Close Range), Gene Hackman plays Sam as a scrawny, withered rooster, with tobacco stains on his teeth and hatred of blacks and Jews in his heart. He has an alcoholic daughter (a skeletal Faye Dunaway) and a grandson, Adam (chipper Chris O'Donnell), determined to save Sam from state-sanctioned murder. This makes for high, disjointed drama--a shotgun marriage of Method theatrics and TV-movie heart tugging...
...CyberCash expects about 100 Web sites to take them up on it. Initially six banks will offer electronic wallets to their customers, including the Charlotte, North Carolina-based First Union, the nation's sixth largest. "There's an obvious niche for 'coin' payments on the Internet," says Parker Foley, First Union's director of electronic commerce. "CyberCash is the first company to have their model together...
...that would have happened had not 40 years of tradition come crashing down the night of Nov. 8, 1994. Gephardt sat up until 3 a.m. in his south St. Louis district, watching in shocked silence as the election returns came in. Thirty-four Democrats, including then Speaker Tom Foley, were swept out that night. Gone too were about half the Democratic freshmen who had been elected on the moderate themes of Clinton's 1992 campaign. Not one incumbent Republican lost...
Twice before, in the ethics scandals that had toppled first a Speaker and then his majority whip, the fall of others had lifted Gephardt closer to the top of an institution that he had once seen only as a springboard to the White House. With Foley's demise, Gephardt became the highest-ranking Democrat to survive the G.O.P. onslaught. Now he had far more than his own image to retool. "This was destined to happen," Gephardt told his distraught staff the next morning. "We just have to get to work...
...Khan do indeed deliver. With precise kicks and showy flips, the two ease into an exciting rhythm, a double-time of smacks and crashes that are a foley artist's dream. Sometimes the action gets too fast to track, but you get the sense that like the erratic flight of a bat the action, if slowed down, has an underlying elegance. (Indeed, to Chan's ample martial arts experience, Khan has extensive training in ballet...