Word: powers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headlines: A day after President Clinton, on a visit to Kosovo, pointed to U.S. peacekeeping troops there as an example of racial harmony the Balkans should emulate, the wires were buzzing about a Pentagon report indicating that all is not well among the races in the American military. "The power of your example," cooed Clinton to the troops in Kosovo, "will show [the Kosovars] that they do not have to be trapped in the pattern of slaughter. You are a rebuke to the biggest problem in the world." Yet reports of the Pentagon study, released Tuesday, painted an ugly picture...
...HELMS' PROBLEM] He accused Helms of "a negative abuse of power" that hindered U.S. foreign policy...
...Hansel? When kids collect dinosaurs, parents, blinded by science, simply shrug when their children yell in the museum, "Look, mom, that allosaurus is eating the brachiosaur's baby!" After that, what can be objectionable about the too-cute-to-live Pokemon named Jigglypuff, a ball of fluff whose greatest power--not to be scoffed at--is a stupefying lullaby...
...there is a problem: the key principle of the Pokeocracy is acquisitiveness. The more Pokemon you have, the greater power you possess (the slogan is GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL). And never underestimate a child's ability to master the Pokearcana required to accumulate such power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there...
...Liev Schreiber, right, with Roy Scheider), describing his concept for Citizen Kane (studio production No. RKO 281): "A titanic figure of limitless ambition...controlling the deceptions of everyone beneath him." Welles means William Randolph Hearst, the ruthless magnate he would nail in the movie that, owing to Hearst's power, almost went unreleased. The irony: like Hearst, the auteur was driven to selfish cruelty for his (artistic) ends. Despite Schreiber's intensity and charm, this film never plumbs its subject's soul as Welles' did, but it's an often absorbing study of free expression and its human cost...