Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disney program, revamped, is typical in that it levies some nagging fees: $10 to enroll, $5 plus 4[cents] per share on each purchase by check, and varying charges on shares bought via reinvested dividends. That last fee really irks me. Few programs charge to reinvest dividends. But, hey, somebody has to pay for Eisner's limo. Even with the fees, though, there is no cheaper way to buy Disney stock. Eisner is adding Disney to a roster that includes Exxon, Ford and Gillette, but the real benefit is that he will open a floodgate that other companies will probably...
...give away $1 billion. Looking over statements prepared by his financial advisers, he noticed that his net worth had shot up from $2.2 billion to $3.2 billion between the beginning of the year and Aug. 31, largely on the strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included...
Shouting "Hey Harvard, what do you say? How many primates did you kill today?" and other slogans, a group of local animal-rights activists circled Harvard Yard yesterday afternoon, protesting the University's involvement in experiments on animals...
...Hey, wait a minute; Howard can't be gay. He's the track coach! And he's about to marry the sweet, desperately needy Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack). Though he plaintively denies he's gay, and though his parents (Debbie Reynolds and Wilford Brimley) support him, some people are intrusive or vengeful: a tabloid-TV reporter (Tom Selleck), the school principal (Bob Newhart) and a few students who think homosexuality is just too weird, man. As one solemnly declares, the human body has "in" holes and "out" holes, and "gay guys put 'in' stuff in the 'out' holes...
...manages to tweak the stereotypical labels of homosexuality without really dislodging them-from limp hand-gestures and crossed legs to extreme neatness of dress and the aforementioned dancing. Its solution isn't to disprove the stereotypes but to make light of them and show that hey, they're no big deal; the whole point is that none of this should be such a big deal, but is made to be. There's no edge, no grit: it's the sanitized, homogenized Hollywood comic vision of a Greenleaf, Indiana, learning to accept gays, if not to be perfectly politically correct about...