Word: intentionally
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...Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins and the splenetically funny Jim Belushi) to form a profoundly modern relationship. The movie is so intent on ingratiating itself with its audience that it betrays the meaning of its source. One of Mamet's themes--that friends are more possessive than lovers --remains as a vagrant motif. The rest is obscured in the mist of soft- focus cuteness, as yuppie lust conquers all. Welcome...
...girl plot, Director Edward Zwick might have tried dramatizing the poignant detumescence of a love affair. It's part of the emotional nitrogen cycle: people do get over the people they have loved. But not people in Hollywood movies--at least not in movies made by directors so ruthlessly intent on imitating models they could never believe...
...Supreme Court has recently been willing toact as if nothing has changed since 1787 whendealing with separation of powers issues," saidRichard H. Fallon, assistant professor of law."They insist on tracing back to the intent of theConstitution's writers," he said
...stop in Manila, the Secretary's next destination, was not so & refreshingly simple. The U.S. is intent on strengthening the Aquino government, partly because of its democratic principles and partly because Washington is worried by the continuing Communist insurgency in the Philippines. Shultz came armed with a check for $200 million that was previously promised to the Philippines but then held up in the complicated U.S. foreign aid appropriation process. While Aquino gladly accepted the funds, several Filipino officials grumbled that the check was not nearly generous enough. Retorted Shultz: "It's only $200 million, but I'm still...
Rehnquist holds himself out as an apostle of judicial restraint. Federal judges, he asserts, should not impose their personal views on the law or stray beyond the intent of the framers by reading broad meaning into the Constitution. Yet judicial restraint has another meaning: judges are also supposed to respect stare decisis, the established precedent handed down by past judges. Rehnquist has been less respectful of Supreme Court precedent, especially the decisions of the liberal Warren Court. His critics sometimes accuse him of disingenuously twisting history to fit his own views. "Don't forget, Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia...