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...shuttling the bill through Congress. And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill - which allowed Presidents to veto individual sections of legislation rather than the entire thing - to those most likely to appreciate the bill's impact: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush...
...screens. (It's really a supporting role to Dakota Fanning's Cherie Currie.) So far, Pattinson is finding it hard to attract fans when he's not in his giant fantasy-film franchise; in Star Wars terms, he's more Mark Hamill than Harrison Ford. That would make Stewart the new Carrie Fisher. If she's to tread Fisher's path, she'd better cultivate a sassy tongue and learn to write clever, withering books about herself...
...beginning of 2009, installed its first major system in Hawaii over the summer and now has $100 million worth of orders in the pipeline. The firm currently employs 105 people and is again looking to grow. Its plan is to buy a factory in Wixom, Mich., that Ford shut down in 2007. (See the best photos of 2008: "The American Economy: Down...
...avant-garde. They were still stuck eating at Lum's. Now, thanks to all the things the ancient regime most loathes - the Food Network, Top Chef, Eater and other blogs, Tony Bourdain, Momofuku mania, Rachael Ray, celebrity-chef restaurants - America has become as turned on by food as any Ford-era gourmand. But they lack the one thing that the old guard has in spades: perspective...
...member, but every one of them is resistant to change or novelty. Anything new in movies seems less like progress and more like a renunciation of the artistic standards they were nurtured on. Consider that in 1942, the Academy gave its top awards, Best Picture and Director, to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, a poignant evocation of a Welsh mining town. Fine, honorable, fully worthy. The film it beat: Citizen Kane. Who needs all those low-angle shots, the deep-focus cinematography, the oblique, multifaceted view of a powerful publisher? Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations...