Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOULD THINK THAT AFTER SUBJECTING US TO INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES, MTV MIGHT HAVE LET us move inside and out of the rain. No such luck. We still have one more hour on the sidewalk. Now, however, we are out on Broadway beneath the windows of the MTV studios, and in an effort to suck every last drop of freed publicity out of our suffering, we are offered "Wannabee a VJ" signs to carry while we wait. We decline the honor, but those around us embrace their servitude with glee...
...four-foot tall, crippled, drunk beggar works the line. He's not having much luck. Some of the VJ wannabees are getting testy. An MTV staffer, charged with keeping the line orderly, observes the commotion with a smirk. Gesturing toward the hunch-backed bum, he launches into a sidewalk sermon...
There's honesty and energy in the film's flashbacking pursuit of that thought. But Chris' lasting luck is his wife Marion. Emily Watson plays her as a kind of dream nanny--knowing, ironic, tolerant of his erotic nostalgia and not as prim as she looks. She, and Metroland, finally make a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through...
...hints for newcomers to the game are simple: "Patience, luck, good legs and paranoia. Lots and lots of paranoia," Lim advises. But even an assassin master cannot hold off death all the time. About two hours before the game ended, two sneaky killers managed to gun him down in cold blood. "It was rather embarrassing," Lim says...
While Milosevic moved fast to stay ahead of the impact of the air strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...