Word: neatness
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Look, we think it's neat that this story, about folks poisoned by water laced with hexavalent chromium, caught the eye of studio execs who haven't drunk tap water in years. And it's fine if today's only female box-office magnet wants to do Norma Rae Takes a Civil Action. (Her teary phone call alone will guarantee an Oscar nomination.) But does the film, written by Susannah Grant, have to be both heckling and truckling? Everyone in it has one job: to endure Erin's ballsy superiority. Real actresses, like Cherry Jones, Marg Helgenberger and Veanne...
...celebration puts the players in touch with the fans," Shafer said. "It's a neat, college hockey environment...
...Palma watched the film over and over again to get his ideas. That's a fantastic testament to Kubrick's skill and influence as a director (his was made in 1968), but also speaks volumes concerning De Palma's absolute lack of creativity. Any time he pulls a neat trick with the camera, there's an underlying sense that it's being done simply to show the world he's still...
Talk about synergy. The coca-hunting Bell and Sikorsky helicopters that the Clinton Administration wants to ship to Colombia to help wipe out cocaine and heroin just happen to be needed at exactly the same time that U.S. helicopter builders are looking for new customers. It is a neat fit: Colombia and other Latin American nations can use the aircraft; U.S. helicopter builders can use the orders. The Administration's aid package calls for 30 new Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, at $10 million each, and 33 Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Hueys, outfitted with new engines and other improvements...
...their life trying to undo what their plutocrat fathers had done. The creators of the succeeding admissions-test elite wanted to take decision-making power about who got to the top away from the marketplace and give it to the schools. If the country has decided it would be neat to be led by its billionaires, that would represent the failure of two elaborate, well-intentioned and long-running efforts, together taking up almost 100 years, to oust them and create an alternative elite...