Word: pal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brock sees his dreams of quitting become more unrealistic, he turns to his boyhood pal Mel, who is now a musicbusiness mogul with a gift for packaging anyone as a superstar. Mel comes up with the insanely effective idea of turning Brock into a star so that his books will sell...
Which is why Ice-T is right to say he's no more dangerous than George Bush's pal Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wasted an army of cops in Terminator 2. Images of extraordinary cruelty and violence are marketed every day, many of far less artistic merit than Cop Killer. This is our free market of ideas and images, and it shouldn't be any less free for a black man than for other purveyors of "irresponsible" sentiments, from David Duke to Andrew Dice Clay...
...middle of all this, Huston decides to stage a hilarious wedding for a visiting pal from Hollywood. But to state that the plot concerns a bride and groom is like saying that Moby-Dick is about fishing. Bradbury's latest effort is really a fond look back at his year of living dangerously. That was the time when hangovers, lies and fatigue were balanced by workmen's compensation: good talk, new friends and material for the most entertaining book in a distinguished 50-year career...
...artists and intellectuals, trying to explicate her mystery, who did the most to propagate her legend. She was Ernest Hemingway's pal (he called her "the Kraut"), and she conducted famous liaisons with men ranging from John Wayne to the gloomy popular novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Yet she was also a devoted mother and grandmother who never divorced her only husband, even after he became a chicken rancher in the San Fernando Valley. She was, everyone agreed, "sexy," but no one ever satisfactorily defined the nature of her appeal, which eventually settled into a dislocating combination of threat and good...
...Chilean pavilion has a 60-ton iceberg in an indoor pond. But it's the well-conceived, meticulously wrought Norwegian pavilion that triumphs in the ice-water category. In fact, Norway's building, a witty, sublime little Constructivist jewel box designed by Oslo architect Pal Henry Engh, is among the best at Expo...