Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plaintiff, Viatcheslav G. Abramian, 49, a former security guard, alleges he was fired two years ago in retaliation for complaints he field with colleagues about racial discrimination in the Harvard University Police Department's guard unit. Abramian, a Russian immigrant, is now homeless and lives in Jamaica Plain...
...families whose incomes exceed $100,000. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the $19 billion cut in capital-gains tax would average only $26.05 for taxpayers earning less than $100,000 but would mean an average reduction of $1,223.23 to those earning more. "It is just plain wrong," said House minority leader Richard Gephardt, "to give tax breaks to the wealthy at a time when working people are struggling just to pay the bills...
...Maeve Binchy's novel Circle of Friends. It revolves around three convent-educated girls: Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), cautiously quirky; Nan (Saffron Burrows), incautiously ambitious, whose effort to seduce her way into the Protestant gentry brings her to near tragedy; and, at the center of the circle, Benny, large, plain, smart and, in Minnie Driver's performance, utterly luminous...
...next thing he knows, he has landed, Dorothy-like, in an entirely different world. Somehow Daniel's boat has washed up onto a vast plain of parched earth, with not a drop of water in sight. It's Patrick Swayze as Pecos Bill, and not Glinda the Good Witch, who arrives in a cyclone, just in time to rescue Daniel from two comically imbecilic vagrants poised to kill Daniel for his gold fillings...
...late 1950s, and Benny (really Bernadette) Hogan (Minnie Driver), a plain, awkward girl from a small village, is ripe for a coming-of-age experience. Going off to college with her lifelong friends Nan (Saffron Burrows) and Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) is just the thing. On the very first day, she meets Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), who enters with a caress from the camera that practically screams "love interest." Sure enough, Jack falls for Benny, preferring her to the beautiful but cold Nan and the charming, impish Eve. Benny's own characteristic--in this movie, nobody has more than...