Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rain, and emotional British men wandering the stormy countryside). Weather is mood music that everybody hears, and this commonality is both its strength and its downfall. As a topic that is available to everyone, we tend to bring it up when there is absolutely no other common ground. On the other hand, when we're all experiencing the same gorgeous fall day, we're all starting from the same place. There is something gratifying in the communal appreciation of a great day, the collective distaste for a nasty one and the shared experience of the singular atmosphere created...
None of this makes Harris a wholesome character. But in the end, he has broken no laws--and broken little new ground in the selling of eggs. He has merely upped the ante. He has, that is, if his venture is a success. The site has received only one legitimate bid so far, says Harris' spokesman, and in the negative publicity that followed the website launch, five of the eight models originally displayed on his site have dropped...
...problem with simply discarding hope for an on-the-ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts...
...seize territory under U.S. air cover and encourage demoralized Iraqi army units to defect to their cause. Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey would take U.S. support a step further. Containing Saddam with sanctions and almost weekly aerial attacks against his sam batteries "has failed," Kerrey argues. "I favor committing U.S. ground forces and air forces" to topple the dictator...
...doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first third of the movie; the pacing is deliberate and slow, allowing the film to get under Wigand's skin and into his life...