Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sober one of the pair--Curtis is the flamboyant, womanizing risk-taker--to a state of madcap abandon. There's a gleam in his eyes as he shakes a pair of maracas, or holds a rose between his teeth during a tango with Brown, that is nothing short of priceless. The tango scene is one of the greatest in comedy film history, and it works because of Lemmon...
...same breath that he denies any ambition to return to management, he sketches out plans for the company's future. Though he brings a relative pittance to the deal in Chrysler stock--about $50 million--the value of his reputation, and the credibility it lends to Kerkorian, is priceless. And as Iacocca knows, with this deal he again puts it on the line. Revered as the man who would not let Chrysler fall, could he also be a man unable...
...when MGM auctioned off a good part of its priceless heritage, Reynolds was there to buy costumes worn in some of the studio's famous films, including Leslie Caron's plaid suit from Gigi and Clark Gable's uniform from the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. "I just started buying on an emotional level," she says. "But after I had bought all this stuff, it struck me: Wouldn't everybody love to see this?" For years, without avail, she tried to interest moguls in financing a movie museum in Hollywood. Then she rolled sevens in Vegas...
What gives a dancer the priceless elan that makes the audience lose its heart? Baryshnikov, who was artistic director of American Ballet Theatre from 1980 to 1989 and was never lucky enough to develop a star ballerina, is right that an imaginative response to music is crucial. All four women move in highly individual ways, and Bussell is particularly daring in her responses. Baryshnikov also points to the obvious qualities a ballerina must possess: the confidence and drive and "extraordinary natural facility." But humility is necessary as well. "A young girl must open her heart and mind," Baryshnikov says...
...Thursday-night meeting in his office, the Speaker promised that on April 15 of next year--tax day, and just six months before the election--Republicans will offer the supermajority as a separate constitutional amendment. Though it's not likely to pass then either, a floor vote should provide priceless ammunition for campaign commercials against Democrats who oppose it. Meanwhile, after their preferred version was defeated in an early vote, virtually all the freshmen lined up to pass the budget amendment in a 300-to-132 vote...