Word: knights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typified most other UAs: friendly, sympathetic, but often lacking the knowledge necessary to assist people having problems. Ask them anything that's technical (as opposed to asking for a form or a stapler), they nod and keep on smiling, but they are not going to be your White Knight...
...France only in October, whereas The Visitors has been playing since February), but the Poire comedy is a genuine phenomenon, earning a record-smashing $70 million. "We have no dinosaurs," Poire said smilingly on opening night. What The Visitors has is a solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense of humor and a few tricks swiped from Hollywood: breakneck pace and gaudy visual effects. The time-travel buffoonery of Encino Man meets Ghostbusters' technical sorcery. En France...
...Gladys Knight--the real Gladys Knight--sang Happy Birthday to the First Lady, and a three-person band from Memphis played jazz, blues and Motown in the East Room until well past midnight...
Fish plays off the youthful enthusiasm and integrity of both Andrew Burlinson, as the spring chicken Master Knight, and Matthew Strack, as the starry-eyed peasant. Strack carries off the difficult role of infatuated youth and ardent revolutionary, whispering sweet but wholesome nothings into his love-muffin's ear at one moment, rousing the masses to glorious martyrdom in defense of liberty and justice the next...
Under the tutelage of men like Phil Knight of Nike, Michael Jordan became the first great crossover athlete, a black man whose appeal spans race, age and gender. Little old ladies who have no idea what a jump shot is know -- and like -- Mike. Because of his responsibilities as a corporate spokesman, Jordan ! was meant to maintain a Goody Two-Sneakers image. At times this seemed to bewilder him. On the one hand, Jordan was so afraid of complicating his image that when reporters asked him to comment on the Los Angeles riots last year, he mumbled something about...