Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps he can help out with the hitting. The NL venue for Games 3, 4 and 5 means pitchers have to take their own at bats -- no designated hitters -- and that robs the potent Yankee lineup of some lumber. It's also warmer, but that may help Cone as much as Hitchcock -- a rain-soaked Cone fell apart against the Indians, and Yankees manager Joe Torre thinks the 36-year-old will benefit from some sunshine. But there's added pressure on the Padres to keep this thing competitive with a win Tuesday: on November 3, the city...
Solondz depicts a world in which, as Jean Renoir said, everyone has his reasons. Reasons to love, to hurt, to go on living. Some people--those moviegoers with nerve and a need to see the most potent and upsetting tragicomedy of the year--will have good reason to see Happiness. In doing so, they will celebrate the enduringly ornery spirit of independent cinema...
...Thankfully, elections are just around the corner. TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl says that fear of a voter backlash -- always politics' most potent motivator -- may end up pushing Republicans into a compromise passage. "There has to be a point when Congress realizes that unless this money is released to the IMF, the world recession is going to engulf the U.S.," he says. "And that would leave the Republicans as the ones who allowed it to happen...
Moore has been in the starting lineup since Harvard's leading scorer Gina Foster went down with a sprained ankle on Sept. 26. Foster's condition is day-to-day, but Moore has taken full advantage of her extended playing time by immediately contributing to the Crimson's potent offensive attack...
...afternoon airwaves with her syndicated talk show. She is among the nation's most admired and influential people. Now, 11 years after first reading the Morrison novel, here she is as the producer of what she told screenwriter Richard LaGravenese would be "my Schindler's List": a pristine, potent distillation of Beloved, which opens Oct. 16. And there she is onscreen as Sethe. Or rather--and here's a sweet jolt--there is Sethe onscreen, with Oprah living, hiding inside...