Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national ticket. Citing concern over campaign-finance reform and a certain lack of zeal for supercentrist candidates Gore and Bradley (once considered the toasts of Beverly Hills, but if Beatty should run, perhaps just toast), the leading man whose most recent movie role was that of a Mad Hatter Senator, Jay Bulworth, threatened to inject color and charisma, and a dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system is so corrupted, we don't really need a third party. We need a second one," Beatty said, affirming his faith in Jack-and-Bobby liberalism...
...last week's ruble devaluation package and is expected to drop Anatoly Chubais from his cabinet -- one of the few Russian politicians to enjoy any confidence among Western bankers. President Clinton, when he arrives at the Kremlin next week, may feel as if he's walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party. "Yeltsin is no longer connected in any sense to the solution to Russia's crisis," says Quinn-Judge. "He's very much part of the problem." And that leaves Clinton with yet another painful dilemma...
Americans in Europe are too often like Alices tumbling down the rabbit hole and encountering the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat and a deck of living cards. To them, Europeans live in a magical land that warrants a glance--perhaps even a visit--but not serious study...
These kids, growing up in the age of digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...
...write it in a week." He is developing a TV series. His next film, Dogma--a satire in which God is a woman, Jesus is black and drug dealers return as prophets--begins shooting in the fall. No wonder he has a tattoo of the Mad Hatter emblazoned on his biceps...