Word: pleasers
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...high-flying ballet. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which makes its U.S. debut at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 9, Ang Lee pays glorious tribute to both Chinese action films and Western-style love stories. The Taiwanese-born director of Sense and Sensibility offers a mature crowd pleaser, with brisk pacing and a lingering melancholy...
...others who are Gore's problem. Why? He seems to them too much a pleaser and a chameleon. (Women may share this opinion, but I'm talking about the men). These men see uncertainty of self, cunning changeability, opportunism. They see energies of desperation in him, and at the bottom, somewhere, a kind of fear... but of what? Inadequacy? Failure? The men who are Gore's problem do not, in any case, believe that he adds up to a trustworthy human being. They look into his character and see a house of cards...
...announced through a spokesperson this week that she will be taking a semester's leave from Stanford University in the fall to help her mom get elected to the Senate. Chelsea--the most potent familial ornament in American politics since Jackie Kennedy--has proved to be a campaign crowd pleaser, though whether she will do any stumping of her own or merely accompany her mother on the New York trail is unclear. While sending Mom back to Washington is a top priority, Chelsea also hopes to spend some quality time with Dad, to "experience and enjoy the final months...
...general crowd pleaser that will hopefully revive the Western genre that was so badly maimed after last year's Western bomb, Wild Wild West, Shanghai Noon is an entertaining action and adventure flick that mixes the Wild West and the Far East. Jackie Chan, the talented martial arts guru, stars as the acrobatic Imperial Guard, Chon Wang who travels to America to rescue the beautiful kidnapped Chinese Princess (Lucy Liu). Chan must rely on the help of a partner who he does not trust (Owen Wilson), a wife he doesn't want, and a horse he cannot ride. Combining mean...
...beyond its value as a crowd pleaser, the issue is less of a crisis than it may seem during an overheated political rally. Despite cries that the Clinton Administration has neglected America's men and women in uniform, the number of troops on food stamps is declining. In 1991, 19,400 troops received food stamps. By 1995 the number was 11,900, and by 1998 only 6,300 of the 1.4 million Americans in uniform were on food stamps. Even after accounting for the shrinking military, the number of troops receiving such aid has slid from 0.9% to 0.45% over...