Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person you turn into." But the movie is careful not to give Chad his comeuppance, and the audience must fish for any lessons the story offers. Men are welcome to X-ray their hearts for a hint of Howard or an edge of Chad. Women can take a peek at--and, if they wish, confirm their suspicions of--that dangerous and perplexing house pest, the modern middle-class male. The camera lingers in elegantly immobile, anthropological medium shot--a distance that respects the danger of the creature it is photographing. Chad prowls and roars and claws...
...Bill Clinton felt like vetoing his on-screen portrayal in this summer's Contact, wait until he gets a peek at next year's Primary Colors. The $65 millionish feature is based on the best-selling roman a clef that portrays an ambitious Governor named Jack Stanton whose presidential campaign is rocked by bimbo eruptions and accusations of draft dodging. The movie, which director Mike Nichols finished shooting last week, stars John Travolta as Stanton, Emma Thompson as his strong-willed wife Susan and Billy Bob Thornton as a James Carville-type campaign manager...
...front man were written off as a genetic curiosity. But then Interscope, the hottest label going, signed the band, and its fortunes turned around. "There were a lot of people coming around and looking at me as Bob's son. They were, like, going to a circus to peek," says Dylan. "They stopped coming. They all disappeared." Not quite. Now the crowds are coming to hear...
...truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on the hillside. While Duane tours the scene in his pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity...
...forces applauded a remarkable string of confessions by the Liggett Group last week as the straw that could finally break Joe Camel's back. The admissions, made to end Liggett's role as a defendant in 22 state lawsuits against the five largest U.S. tobacco companies, offered an unprecedented peek at some dirty little secrets inside Liggett and, by implication, the rest of the $45 billion tobacco industry...