Word: hopscotching
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...note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that he does not recall making telephone solicitations from the executive mansion, but cannot rule out the possibility. In the meantime, until a clarification of the existing law comes down the pipe, the White House appears content to play legal hopscotch. While White House counsel reportedly advised employees not to make any phone solicitations from federal property, Gore has said he understood they were legal if made with a political credit card...
...elite team of government agents is assigned to infiltrate a fortress commandeered by a charismatic maniac. Then comes a fatal ambush of the good guys, and all that remains of our super team is star quality. Can't you see the lighting of the fuse, hear the hopscotch rhythms of a Lalo Schifrin theme? All right, the threat--like most threats in recent spy movies--is domestic, not international. But The Rock, this week's entry in the summer-movie testostero-thon, still looks like an instant sequel to Mission: Impossible...
...been welcomed with open arms in Baltimore. Local columnists have publicly expressed their guilt, and some writers and talk-show hosts are already calling for the head of his coach, Bill Belichick. But it's only poetic justice. An N.F.L. owner once said, "We can't hopscotch franchises around the country. We have built this business on the trust of fans. If we treat that as if it doesn't count, it isn't going to wash." The owner who said that was Art Modell...
...unwitting carrier of a germ that causes flulike symptoms and sudden, grisly death in almost everyone who comes in contact with it. A simple cough and sniffle are the homely signs of doom. In a series of short, effective scenes that hopscotch around the country -- a small town in East Texas, a disease-control lab in Vermont, the streets of New York City -- the plague spreads, causing death, panic, chaos. Practically all that remains of civilization is talk-radio etiquette. A radio host (Kathy Bates), enraged about the "superflu" cover-up, takes calls from panicked listeners who tell of dying...
...extended family of adults and are sometimes given bit parts in the show. Living on the road, exposed to big crowds and strange cities, they must grow up faster than most of us. On a patch of asphalt in front of the Winnebago, Romanos has sketched out hopscotch squares. "This," she says, "is their playground...