Word: mass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of the answer, paradoxically, may lie in the way the film shamelessly, even joyously, keeps piling on that familiar material. At some point the sheer mass of it simply overwhelms dubiety. The fact that everything that happens in the movie comes as a surprise to its participants helps too. They apparently have not seen all the movies or read all the books about adolescent angst. So their responses are fresh. And felt...
Celebrity enclaves such as those in Sun Valley, Idaho; Nantucket, Mass.; and the Hamptons on Long Island boast some of the priciest digs in the world. The celebs made that happen, no doubt. But their impact on less glitzy neighborhoods is unclear. Chappaqua is a rural bedroom community that prizes solitude. Glitz is bad. Yet a sitting President's decision to buy in our town is a ringing endorsement. Real estate agents will trumpet it and attract more potential buyers and prop up values...
...Location. This is rule No. 1, and it's so important that if you get it right, it will offset almost any home-buyer mistake. The Clintons did fine. They bought in a top-rated school district near reliable mass transit into Manhattan. They can be reasonably sure of getting their money out, reasonably quickly, anytime they sell...
...shame when it comes to manipulating the American voter. One wonders if any of the trusting people who raise concerns for the consideration of politicians expect anything more than lip service. The time for politicians to listen is after they have been elected, not before. PERRY NICHOLS Brewster, Mass...
...everyone forget that possible presidential candidate Warren Beatty [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 23] is married to the beautiful Annette Bening, who was cast as the romantic interest of widower President Michael Douglas in the movie The American President? Go for it, Warren! Perfect casting! LINDA SONES FEINBERG Lynnfield, Mass...