Word: friction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mulqueen, a convicted killer, to roam around unmanacled and largely unsupervised. The script strains to pardon Mulqueen's crimes by contrasting his noble, ideological struggle with the Jackal's vicious, gun-for-hire mentality, but both characters are so poorly developed that it's hard to care. What little friction there is between the two terrorists comes to nought...
...least $3 billion.' 'There will have to be,' said another, 'an irresistible, scintillating plan--written, illustrated, printed and distributed within four months, so that we can launch the campaign by spring.' 'And the whole University must be included,' said another, 'working in its traditional, coordinated, flawless, non-competitive, polyphonic, friction-free way--so that sights can be raised; crescent moons can become full; tides can swell; and all our tubs can paddle off together, to the happy isles, where there will never be Jabberwocks or even Snarks to snare or bedevil...
...controversy. Vice President Al Gore praised Ellen last week, saying it had forced Americans "to look at sexual orientation in a more open light." The Christian Coalition immediately responded by saying Gore was "way out of the mainstream." Meanwhile, the dominance of the gay theme seems to have created friction between ABC and DeGeneres. She publicly threatened to quit the show, which has had solid ratings, after the network ran a parental advisory before a recent episode in which Ellen jokingly kissed a straight female friend. In a future show, Ellen and a woman go into a bedroom...
Water is melted under the satellites' ice crust because of the friction from the flexing...
...lives of a dozen or so denizens of the porn biz. Loosely based on the life of John C. Holmes, porn's biggest male star, Boogie Nights has panoramic ambitions: a tapestry-style narrative, labyrinthine tracking shots, explosions of random, firecracker violence. Nashville meets GoodFellas meets Pulp Friction. The film doesn't quite get there, but it packs a wad of compelling entertainment on its road to triple-X oblivion...