Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dominates the film landscape that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic Movies...
...gosh. This is surely a flattering tribute. But it's hardly the sort of notion one expects to hear Men Who Follow Sports expressing to each other, even in the New Age '90s. Come to think of it, this is hardly the sort of notion one expects to hear any man, in any age, expressing even to himself. But when Sergei Bubka thunders down the runway with the zeal of a mounted hussar about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might...
...boat, but there was nothing to hold the seats up, and the boat collapsed. It was like sitting in a plastic bag, because I had all the parts in my house." Teammates Annie Kakela and Mary McCagg, who is Betsy's twin sister, laugh, incredulously but nervously, at the notion...
...five months before the election, the embattled President and First Lady are hoping they'll have another child, and are allegedly considering adoption, perhaps of a youngster with special needs. There is only one way for the Clintons to dispel the notion that this blockbuster revelation is just political pandering of historic proportions. They should adopt a special-needs child before Election Day. MICHAEL D. PARANZINO Rockville, Maryland...
...predict which works of art will provoke what sorts of desperate acts? Mark David Chapman was clutching The Catcher in the Rye when he murdered John Lennon. Three years ago, a movie called The Program gave several teenagers the notion that it might be worth their while to lie down in the middle of a busy highway. But if you're a bored, unbalanced person in need of inspiration, Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers--in which Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis go on a murder spree and win fame for their efforts--may be a natural-born...