Word: louise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mandela recently bestowed South Africa's highest honor, the Order of Good Hope, upon Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Perhaps in a testament to their ideological ties, both Qaddafi and Mandela have in the past played host to Louis Farrakhan, the unashamedly anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of...
Like a snake charmer, Greenspan talked the market into a catatonic state--or was it that traders were merely exhausted? Prices remained somewhat stable the rest of the week, and by Friday the Dow stood 9.9% below its all-time high and few investors seemed much worse for the wear...
In an unstable, unloyal, technologically isolating world, it's the solid values, sturdy connections and safe harbors of yesteryear that resonate. Dinner parties are better than dance clubs, and settling down beats swinging free. "I'm amazed at how quickly I went from the bar culture to intimate dinner parties...
Voodoo is an omnipresent force in Eve's Bayou, one that imbues the film with a mysticism that balances the inherent realism with an aura of dark fantasy. Lemmons implicitly contrasts the rational Louis, whose concerns are limited to those of the modern world, with the spiritual Mozelle. The practice...
Samuel L. Jackson also does well in a smaller role. His character is essentially a more complex turn on Danny Glover's cruel husband in The Color Purple, largely because his story is seen from the perspective of a child who both loves and distrusts him. Although unfaithful to his...