Word: gimmicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hooker (Mary-Louise Parker) gets called in to service an old geezer, who promptly confesses that he had his first two wives killed. She flees into a closet, doors spin, and we are transported to the same room 20 years earlier--then 20 years before that. The time-travel gimmick is fun but hardly frivolous: the play explores matters of fate and free will, and the ability of people to control their own destiny. A clever and finally quite moving work...
Glenn's flight is a public relations gimmick. Nothing will be learned about the effects of space on aging. C. RALPH VERNO West Chester...
...among us, in our childhoods, didn't see some kid selling lemonade on a corner and plot to steal a piece of the action with a better drink, a nicer stand, a smarter gimmick...
...events that NASA wouldn't let a monkey try. Last year 14 million amped kids watched, and more are expected to tune in this time to the 11-day event. Sponsors counting on this include Adidas, AT&T, Chevrolet and the U.S. Marines, who couldn't invent a better gimmick to amass potential recruits...
Despite his disclaimers that the tests "were not a political gimmick," the rose petals fluttering down on Vajpayee as Indians celebrated their nuclear machismo explained a great deal about his motives. It makes Indians feel good to be a nuclear power. "We have to prove that we are not eunuchs," said Bombay's leading Hindu nationalist, Bal Thackeray. A poll of 1,000 Indians in several cities showed that 91% approved of the tests and 82% favored the deployment of nuclear weapons. To perennially insecure India, it seems as if forcing its way into the nuclear club confirms its great...