Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce a kind of doofus-Armani effect, a huge unvented, shoulder-padded Frankenstein jacket and flopping trousers that gather at the ankles. Clinton's head, handsome from certain angles, took on a big-jawed Joe Palooka look if he turned slightly to the side; and then with knobby chin and brightening nose, he could seem a cross between W.C. Fields and Tip O'Neill--distinctly subcharismatic...
...phrase Christmas movies summons candy-cane memories of Jimmy Stewart chatting with an angel, Natalie Wood on Santa's knee, Macaulay Culkin giving Joe Pesci a splitting headache. It also suggests another fantasy: the family setting off for the local movieplex and seeing a film together instead of having to go to two different features, one for Mom and Dad, the other for the kids. Surely, somewhere under the holiday sky, there must be a film the whole family can stand. Mustn't there? Surely...
...never accept a tie," senior Joe Craigen said. "But it makes it a lot more palatable when it's in a place like this...
...Disney-dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys? squad should be called The Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team The Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka, is mainly about the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of its live-action star," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "The film could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
ENID GREENE (EX-WALDHOLTZ) It is so, Joe! Criminal probe of Utah Rep is off. And she can't lose an election...