Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling the truth. But his viewers know; Gilliam has used the magic of film to show them the wonders Munchausen has limned. Lovers dance in midair in an underworld waterfall ballroom. The baron sails to the moon in a ship wafted by a hot-air balloon...
...Prime Minister always seemed to possess inside information. Papandreou, says the banker, taps the home and business telephones of such rivals as the head of the political opposition, New Democracy's Constantine Mitsotakis, and unfriendly publishers. "I know all their plans," he proudly told Koskotas...
...said aboard Air Force One, "and I don't intend to." Over the next several days he summoned more than a dozen Democratic Senators to the White House for a personal appeal not to slap away the hand he offered them at his Inauguration. Yet the Administration seemed to know that Tower was a lost cause. By Thursday, when the Senate began its rancorous debate on the nomination, the President's advisers admitted they had failed to lock up a single Democratic vote. On Capitol Hill the Bush team's lobbying effort was being called "nonexistent...
...plotting the Tower strategy, said a senior Administration official. "He was the architect, and Sununu carried it out." Dole is known to be skeptical of the skills the White House brings to a battle. (With good reason: Bush's aides confessed last week that they did not even know in advance of Tower's pledge to swear off drinking, or that their nominee would admit to breaking his wedding vows. Portraying Tower as unfairly treated by the Democratic majority, Dole said he may ask the Senate to permit the nominee to make a rare appearance before the entire body...
...unveiled a new Sunday edition in a $25 million attempt to fight its way into the black. The Sunday edition is the big gun of millionaire real estate , magnate Peter Kalikow, who bought the ailing Post from press lord Rupert Murdoch last year. Kalikow, 46, admits he did not know much about publishing when he took over the paper. "When you fly on an airplane," he says in his thick Queens accent, "you don't know how the plane works. You fly on it because it's going to take you someplace." So far, however, the Post has been speeding...