Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching "The Mirror Has Two Faces" is a little bit like riding that Gravitron thing at the local carnival: you know exactly what's going to happen, but you still hope that maybe, just this once, you won't get sick to your stomach. No such luck. Even though director Barbra Streisand tries so hard to spin it just the right way, when the credits roll out and Bryan Adams starts crooning, you're groaning along with everybody else in the theater...
...Harvard Hall I was personally informed that my desire to work on Wall Street and my qualifications to do so were irrelevant. I was not a "student of color" and, therefore, I was out of luck. I imagine that in the minds of those who support programs like SEO, I simply went home, called up my uncle on the stock exchange, got a job and retired to a posh country club for the evening. Unfortunately, the truth is that I must search through volumes of binders at OCS and actually perform the pedestrian task of sending out resumes...
Persistence--and maybe a little luck--are the keys to landing a job in journalism, a panel of six media professionals said Tuesday night...
...what you can produce that gets you the job," said the CNN correspondent. "That and some luck...
...luck of the draw, the cast included two actors, Goldie Hawn and Alan Alda, who had singing experience. Another, Drew Barrymore, pleaded that she was "beneath the human limit" of musical competence, so Allen hired a nonprofessional to dub her voice. But the rest of the cast was both untutored and game, and the result is one of the nerviest experiments yet for a filmmaker who has already tried everything from surrealist fantasy to Ingmar Bergman homage...