Word: headstrong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cafes are hard put to compete with the television advertising blitzes that promote fast-food chains and with the price advantages of their mass-produced products. After Shannon Biondi, a headstrong three-year-old and a member of what some French sociologists call La Generation MacDo, saw a commercial for "McCopters," she dragged her mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says...
...emphatic, headstrong side of the President -- a side the Irish would relish -- is rarely seen. She admits that she doused the spontaneous side of her nature when she joined the bewigged, masculine Irish bar. Even now she is loath to provide a glimpse into her exemplary private life. When she toured the U.S. last fall, she came across as rather straitlaced. An American who talked to her said the unthinkable: "She's Nancy Reagan -- only good...
Unlike other summer flicks featuring schizophrenic cats, bats and penguins, our story's main characters are refreshingly one-dimensional. Shannon is headstrong. Joseph is a doer. Shannon's Irish fiance is an evil nincompoop. Shannon's parents are rich and silly. The rich Irish-Americans who help Joseph and Shannon are corrupt and ruthless...
...Jessica Tandy), confined to a nursing home, strikes up a friendship with a younger woman (Kathy Bates) who eats too much because she is emotionally starved by her marriage. What brings them together is a long, slightly shaggy story the older woman relates. It is about the friendship of headstrong Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and ladylike Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), two young women of the 1930s, and it involves home cooking, wife beating and a murder. It is an uneasy blend of (among other things) whimsy, melodrama, the Ku Klux Klan and feminist sentiment that coexists rather awkwardly with...
...Webster's four-year stint at the helm of America's vast intelligence network. He had ably carried out the mandate given to him at the outset: to restore the CIA's image and accountability, both of which had been badly damaged by his predecessor, the devious and headstrong William Casey. "Webster improved relations with Congress. Internally, he established stricter rules," says David Whipple, a former senior CIA official who now heads the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. "He did his job very well...