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...says the day's biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over the acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best director nomination for "Bullets Over Broadway." Says Ressner: "It seems as though it's a 'Welcome back Woody, all is forgiven' vote...
...midst of the primordial chaos of much of his playing, Taylor quiets his Units with a nod of the head and spontaneously composes slow, lyrical movements which, taken off of the record and written down, would stand up to Chopin, Rachmaninoff, or Stravinksy...
...businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients: Los Angeles, Cleveland and 90 smaller areas, which will get grants, but no tax breaks. Clinton said the move was a nod to the fashionable idea that communities should decide how to spend federal money, but Kemp -- a 1996 presidential contender -- dismissed the package as "timid...
Springman wishes people would acknowledge his existence. "A lot of people try to make believe that they didn't even hear [my solicitation]," he says. "[I want them] to acknowledge that I'm alive, [they should] at least nod their head...
...symbolic chill for congressional Democrats as they eulogized 40 years of majority rule during a last lame-duck session, convened for GATT. Preparations for the bleak unknown began with Democratic House leadership elections. Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri briefly climbed out of his hospital bed to secure the nod as minority leader before returning for a gallbladder operation; he will be joined by newly elected minority whip David Bonior of Michigan and California's Vic Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted in as minority leader over Connecticut's Christopher...