Word: hogg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO contingency plan calling for 100,000 alliance troops to hold a land corridor from the Adriatic coast was rejected last week. Britain's Deputy Foreign Minister Douglas Hogg flew to Sarajevo to tell Bosnian President Izetbegovic "that there is no cavalry coming over the hill, that there is no international force coming...
...nausea. Chanticleer comes across as a fowl impersonation of Elvis Presley. Even his nickname is "The King". There is a ditzy Betty Boop love interest, and there is the smutty agent--the movie's only redeeming aspect--with voice hilariously rendered by Sorrell Booke, better known as "Boss Hogg" on the "Dukes of Hazzard." The writer even flirts with political correctness when he includes a pseudo feminist mouse...
...film, written and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, may seem schematic in the retelling. But on the screen it is charged with curious ironies and the edgy energy of barely suppressed panic. Its temporarily grounded jet-setters may seem rather remote figures. But in the playing they aren't as sophisticated as they would like to seem; and as they paint themselves deeper and deeper into a corner, one cannot help relating to them. Debt -- especially debt run up in pursuit of pleasures beyond one's means -- is, after all, one of the central subjects of middle-class life...