Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's actions and Clinton's words are the very embodiment of this idea. To justify bombing Serbia over Kosovo, he reiterates in every possible variation the imperative for the U.S. to oppose "ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of innocent people...
...idea was to spice the old format with smart comers--Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Omar Epps (Higher Learning) and Giovanni Ribisi (the medic in Saving Private Ryan)--and a screw-you modernity. Instead, director and co-writer Scott Silver (Johns) gives us a surly anti-toon; it's the Three Sociopathic Stooges with lots of Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around...
...independence from an artist who felt trapped straddling East and West. "Working with her," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Chen as the spoiled royal wife in the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, "I had the feeling she was somehow in exile, not always comfortable. So I love the idea that my own Empress in exile went back to China as a film director...
Kids develop the darnedest eating habits. You've heard of the purity rule: potatoes and carrots must never touch, or they're "contaminated." Or the idea that any food is fine as long as it's peanut butter. I've even heard of youngsters who won't eat vegetables except in Chinese restaurants. But that hasn't stopped the experts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from coming up with a new set of guidelines, published last week in the form of a pint-size food pyramid, to help parents and teachers encourage kids to eat a healthy, balanced diet...
Your report on females amazed me. I climbed Mont Blanc around my 49th birthday; it was a truly wonderful experience. Until I read your article, I had no idea that the desire to do this had been brought on by menopause. I wonder how many other fiftyish women have done the same? I had in my youth done a bit of climbing, but never before (or since) have I managed such a summit. SUSAN JAIS Carqueiranne, France...