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That year, two jewel thieves, Visitor and Lady Visitor, (Ben Toro-Hernandez and Dana Gotlieb) come calling on our couple disguised in the garb of 1929 and exactly resembling the deceased couple. Suddenly, out scream the ghosts of the past...
Grand Canyon National Park, the crown jewel of America's park system, is being overrun. And like many other underfunded and deteriorating national parks, it is ill prepared for the invasion. Summer has barely begun, and cars and campers are already queuing up in lines nearly a mile long at the entrance gates. The wait for dinner tables at park restaurants is two hours, and families without advance reservations are being turned away from campgrounds that have been booked for weeks...
...this is one mark of a movie star-even in her worst, or least, films. For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take...
...what Dole and Gingrich can expect as they begin the hardest part of their agenda: facing the enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies of House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing...
...there was little cause for celebration. The first vote on $189 billion in tax cuts was less than five hours away, and the G.O.P.'s chief vote counter was still 10 short of what he needed even to get the bill to the floor. What Gingrich dubbed the "crowning jewel" of the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America" was in jeopardy...