Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Betty Shookley, who swims regularly at the Malkin pool and signed the petition said, "We are all very interested because the Blodgett pool is quite a mess...
...that people caught up in this quite common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy. But that?s precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in ?Addicted to Love,? and a fine -- but not entirely uninteresting -- mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Mathew Broderick?s Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan?s Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiancee, has moved into...
...Kremlin can make or break lives. Health questions aside, Yeltsin may find words easier than deeds, reports TIME's Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge: "It's questionable how much he can look like a reformer sweeping the place clean when he's the one who presided over the mess in the first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges...
...drummer Lora MacFarlane has been replaced with Janet Weiss, whose rhythmic sense is somewhat sharper and more confident. The title song is one of the best: the music bristles with self-assurance and vitality, even as the lyrics suggest confusion: "Dig me out/ dig me in/ outta this mess baby outta my head." Tucker's wailing vibrato will annoy some listeners (Brownstein's voice is a bit calmer), but it's an apt vehicle to convey the trio's anarchic passion. Several of the tunes are old-fashioned paeans to rock, including the stomping Words and Guitar. But for Sleater...
TACKLING THE WELFARE MESS...