Word: pal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ingratiating gear. It looks like a "buddy romp," as Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, puts it. Thelma is married to a carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women feel more than entitled to shed their mates for a long weekend at a friend's vacation retreat...
...created the market for black-movie rage: Spike Lee. This acerbic auteur is probably best known as Michael Jordan's best pal Mars Blackmon, the hyperverbalizing Nike footwear flack on TV. But with scathing screeds like Do the Right Thing (1989) and the current Jungle Fever, Lee, 34, has carved a niche for fierce minority movies -- a niche that can be enlarged by other directors who are even younger, more choleric, closer to the action if not to the edge. Call them the Spikettes...
...soul mate? Watkins has pursued an independent policy of conservation and regulation that has irritated the White House chief of staff. If Watkins is forced to quit, which some insiders expect this summer, deputy assistant secretary Victor Stello is an early favorite for the Cabinet post. Stello, a longtime pal of Sununu's, shares his enthusiasm for relaxed regulation of nuclear power. The Administration nominated Stello for a job supervising the nation's nuclear-weapons programs last year but withdrew his name and installed him at a lower level after he was criticized during confirmation hearings for his past performance...
...part of the contents. For the investment-minded youngster, "Money Talk" follows the progress -- or lack thereof -- of earnings from $500 that the magazine put into various accounts last spring. (A mutual fund for stocks has dropped behind money-market and other financial investments.) And if a pal borrows money and does not pay it back, the magazine proposes ways to deal with that too. Tell your friend how you feel is the word from one Z-Team member and "be honest." Straight talk, kid to kid, is what Zillions is all about...
President George Bush and CIA Director William Webster clowned around like high school kids last week at a news conference called to announce Webster's resignation from the agency. "We're going to miss you, pal," Bush said. Webster thanked the President, praised him and quipped, "I know a good thyroid when...