Word: groundhogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat balked. The Americans felt they had heard enough--in fact, more than enough--to craft a full package. Sandy Berger, the President's National Security Adviser, had heard so much repetition that he started carrying around the lyrics to I Got You Babe, the song from the movie Groundhog Day--whose hero must relive the same 24 hours over and over. (Clinton tried to explain the joke to Arafat, but it didn't translate.) It was time to force Netanyahu to focus on the security problems, the President decided. Over dinner, he pushed Netanyahu to boil his security demands...
Since now. If I were a truly responsible citizen, I'd also be worried about the Ukrainian groundhog and the Azerbaijani chipmunk or whatever those currencies are called. Now that the cold war is over, we not only have all of our worries, we also have all of what used to be their worries. Their drought is now our drought, and no longer something to cheer about...
...their mind. Ron Howard's Ed TV is about a fellow plucked from obscurity who becomes a star when his life airs live on a 24-hour cable series, and Gary Ross's Pleasantville is about a couple of siblings who get stuck in a '50s sitcom. Shades of Groundhog Day: sophisticated variations of media-bent virtual reality...
Daily Spin "It's the only thing that happens here." ? Thomas Jobe, 20, explaining why he joined 15,000 other spectators in Punxsutawney, Pa., to witness whether Phil the groundhog would see his shadow. Phil did, forecasting six more weeks of winter...
...White House last week dumped its second load of videotapes of Bill Clinton schmoozing potential donors. Watching them is a bit like sitting through Groundhog Day, the movie in which Bill Murray keeps repeating the same 24 hours of his life. In almost any segment, you see the President entering a room or in a receiving line. Now he charms, now he mixes, now he makes small talk ("Nice tie!"). At some point he may accept a token of appreciation, like a lucky rock or a ceremonial dagger. He delivers some cheerleaderish remarks and shakes every hand that looks capable...