Word: loads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...browsing, in its notorious present-day form, is anything but a harmonious experience. Pages take an eternity to load, graphics are often displayed incorrectly, and Java applets and plug-ins can tax even the fastest system's capabilities...
...make a great movie having angst." Mamet loves devising practical jokes, keeping the actors loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts for hire, two novels, four children's books and a load of collected essays. Whatever the word is for the opposite of a writer's block--writerrhea?--Mamet...
Federal law now prohibits the DTA from usingthe money to support individuals for more thanfive years in a life-time. Still, states canexempt as much as 20 percent of its case load andthe DTA plans on using its full exemption...
Born of their incompetence in laundry skills, a lack of time, a surplus of funds or some combination thereof, there are certain people who have their laundry done every week by HSA Cleaners. They bear in silence the knowledge that their Harvard classmates must occasionally load quarters into a washer and dryer, while all they do is walk to their accustomed depot on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, drop off or pick up their laundry and then waltz away. They don't worry about fabric softener, bleach, detergent or the gentle cycle. Permanent press sounds like a never-ending basketball game...
...weeks before he is up for re-election, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout; mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. --Soman S. Chainani