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...sultry Panhandle night. The coquette/tramp, played with appropriate feminine deviltry by Cybill Shepherd (who never looked so good -- just ask Bogdanovich, who did a May-December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early on by John Keats via John Hillerman: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The grand jury knows. But they ain't talking...
...refugees mire the duo and their families deep in the machinations of the fearsome Chinese Triad gang. Busting the Triad's multifaceted criminal empire proves to be a tall order for the aging cops, who turn an old catch phrase of Murtaugh's into a new mantra now that running and fighting are taking a heavy toll on wellworn joints: "We're not too old for this shit...
...must constantly struggle to be aware of the bounds of my own understanding of my campers' backgrounds. Public service, especially when performed under the constraints of a student's schedule, can easily be transformed from a mutually beneficial interaction to a situation in which "making a difference" becomes a mantra which enables the more economically fortunate to forget the limits of their own experience...
...Republicans. Since the Dole disaster, the mantra around Washington has been simple: Don't mess with the teachers. Last year G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz declared that Dole's attack was the least popular sentence of the entire 1996 campaign and instructed Republican candidates to "find common ground with public school teachers." As fed up as many Americans are with the sorry state of the country's public schools, they have generally regarded teachers as the good guys: the ones who stay late, who buy textbooks out of their meager salaries. So while Republicans still detest the two formidable teachers' unions...
Boeing is thus staking its future on efficient manufacture rather than on developing flashy products that fly ever higher, faster and farther, the usual mantra for new aircraft. "For years we were able to raise the price of airplanes based on technology," says vice president Hammer. "But we can't do that anymore. If I want to make a profit, I've got to lower the cost...