Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperate. America's Talking will offer such quirky variants on the talk-show form as Am I Nuts? (psychologists offer advice to people facing everyday stress) and Pork (its single topic: government waste) On ESPN2, the hotshot hosts can be abrasive enough to provoke violence (New Orleans Saints quarterback Jim Everett, taunted by interviewer Jim Rome this spring, overturned a table and pounced...
...crisis negotiator through the wild ride down the freeways. Simpson's friends went on the radio to plead with him to give himself up. "O.J., Al, if you're listening to me, if you can hear me, guys, please, please stop," said ex-N.F.L. player and sportscaster Jim Hill. "Just turn on your emergency blinkers and just pull over to the side. There are a lot of people who believe that if you two keep up with what you're doing right now, the worst is going to happen. People still love you, O.J., and they don't want...
...What makes severe, invasive strep A different is that the microbe itself is "ill," infected with a virus. The virus tricks the bacterium into pumping out a highly toxic chemical. Among the possible effects: a catastrophic drop in blood pressure (which contributed to the death of Muppetmeister Jim Henson in 1990); scarlet fever; or, as the recent news reports point out, "necrotizing fasciitis," an illness that can eat away fat and muscle at the astounding rate of up to one inch an hour. If that last process starts, the only treatments are antibiotics and the cutting away of affected tissue...
...Nichols and the writers (novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick) are treading a fine high wire; one misstep and off you tumble into self-satire, the modern horror film's omnipresent danger. But by provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays...
...makes use of a sly sense of humor and a few goofy abettors. Scar, whom Irons plays with wicked precision as the purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart...