Word: hides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young-stud Ben Affleck to "take good care of my little girl" and then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little girl (Liv Tyler) in her wedding dress. The message here is: Explosions are cool, and so are sappy dads who normally hide their mushy sides behind tough-guy dialogue like "Let's chew this iron bitch...
...struck a ski lift, killing 20 people. Initially, the four airmen stuck to an identical account of the accident, while a Camcorder found inside the plane contained a tape that had been erased. "The fact that the tape had been recorded over suggests there may have been something to hide," says Thompson...
This is the moment of existential dread. Naked onstage, with no props, no scenery, no place to hide. The audience is rapacious in its demands: loosen our inhibitions; make us laugh. Onstage, life is stripped to bare essentials. The voice, the timing, the jokes are your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that...
...Federal Communications Commission is turning into a nightmare for small businesses and residential consumers, who will, after all, foot the bill for the e-rate program. The FCC has created an unnecessary and costly bureaucracy to administer a seemingly unlimited federal entitlement. While the FCC attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes at too high a price. It's time for Congress to pull the plug on the FCC's shell...
...impossible to deny that the '90s have been considerably less tumultuous than the '60s. We can't hide the fact that few of us have been dragged down the steps of a university building while demanding free speech or that more of us spend our summers in the corporate corridors of Wall Street than on freedom rides to Mississippi. And yes, TV watching is up, video games consume our time and hands and, despite the best efforts of organizations like MTV's Rock the Vote, too many Americans turn 18 without thinking about registering...