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...have already seen the best parts of the movie if you've seen the preview. They are all scenes of "seven well-trained, heavily armed men" like the grocery store (where they radio to each other for price checks on produce) or the golf course (where Mrs. Carlisle orders Doug to fetch her ball). In several scenes Doug and Tess engage in ridiculously immature exchanges--in which Doug threatens to leave, and Tess tells him to go, but everyone knows that she doesn't really want him to. Phone calls from a President with a Clinton-esque Southern accent keep...
Faced with such unsettling coincidences, some key industry figures have begun to wonder whether they aren't seeing a preview of the costs climate change may impose on society. "The insurance business is first in line to be affected by climate change," says Franklin Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America. "It is clear that global warming could bankrupt the industry." Insurers must set their premiums in anticipation of future calamities, Nutter and his colleagues know, and when they look ahead, they see prospects even more alarming than those in the recent past...
...audience only too well. Certain keywords, such as "family comedy," '"heart-stop-ping suspense," and tear jerker romance" will produce an almost Pavlovian response in the prospective audience. Probably any experienced moviegoer can summarize the entire plot of a two hour film after seeing only the 45 second preview. Such are the movies of the Nineties...
...preview of the administration's annualaffirmative action report was also presented tothe council...
...preview of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals'146th production, "A Forum Affair," followed theaward presentation...