Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indianapolis, Ind., Bush laid out a detailed list of proposals--complete with a promise of $8 billion in new federal spending--aimed at expanding the role of charities, churches and community groups in helping the poor. A Republican's pledging to increase federal spending for the poor is novel in its own right. But the speech was less remarkable for its topic--supporting faith-based institutions is in vogue with candidates from both parties--than for how Bush used it to neutralize his critics on both the left and the right. By pursuing a liberal end with conservative means, Bush...
...hottest ticket in Belgrade is for a movie called Knife, a dramatic slice of the Yugoslav national theme--ethnic anguish. Serbs are packing theaters to see it for another reason as well. It is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, who for years has been dramatic himself in public life as a journalist, dissident and rival to President Slobodan Milosevic. The film's plot concerns a young man brought up by a Muslim woman. Muslim boy meets Serbian girl; boy loses girl because both families object. Later, he discovers he is a Serb. The message, says Draskovic...
...RUNNER-UP] MARILYN QUAYLE (7): Embrace the Serpent and The Campaign: A Novel...
NEEDLE-FREE SHOTS It's not the flu season yet, but it never hurts to be prepared. Protection from the pesky influenza virus may soon come from a simple squirt in the nostrils. Adults using a novel spray vaccine containing a crippled form of the virus had fewer sick days and took less medication than those who toughed it out without shots. Alas, it may be two years before the spray is available in doctor's offices...
...rest of the film is, sadly enough, a simple exercise in presenting unneeded answers to the many mysteries Bill encountered the night before. In Schnitzler's novel, Bill is left without a true explanation to his journey. But Kubrick inserts a scene where all loose ends are tied up and the result is almost laughable. The film limps to its finish, without catharsis or meaning. The "moral" of the film, according to Alice who had her own horrifying dream adventure the night before, is that "no dream is only a dream" just as no one night symbolizes all "reality...