Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directed by Tom Shadyac, there's enough surrealism in Liar Liar to content all but the most exigent Carrey fans. But there's something worrisome about the film's attempts to socialize and sentimentalize the '90s' designated anarchist. It's wrong to push characters like Carrey's toward mainstream lovability. Danger, with just the slightest touch of lonely-guy geekiness, is his business. Maybe The Cable Guy was miscalculated, but one would rather see Carrey heading for those dark woods than toward sun-splashed suburbia and the cheerfully romantic ending of this film...
...same maverick spirit in the final balloting. My suspicion is that Hollywood is still far more predictable than one might think. The nominations themselves, however hip, bear much in common with Old Academy tradition, and if you don't think lifetime achievement, physical affliction, and onscreen heroics can still push a nominee to the podium, you don't know your Oscars...
...smaller company than the others, may have dealt in part to make it more attractive for a takeover. And while Liggett's documents may help, tobacco has an excellent track record in litigation, hardly losing a case. In the end, Liggett's move might more than anything provide a push for the other companies to settle. Investors believe lifting the threat of costly litigation would send the valuation of tobacco rocketing skyward -- Philip Morris stock rose $6 in February on rumors that a deal might be near. Wall Street seemed pleased by the settlement news: Brooke Group, the parent company...
...House, it would be vetoed again for the same reason. This came as no surprise to House moderates, who bashed the House Rules Committee for endorsing a bill without including some of the revisions Clinton had called for. But the Committee has been helped the panel's decision to push an identical measure might make sense in light of a statement by Ron Fitzsimmons, a prominent abortion rights activist who previously advised Clinton on abortion issues. During last year's debate on the bill, Fitzsimmons assured the President that partial birth abortions were rarely performed and used only to save...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a pre-Helsinki summit meeting with President Clinton, Yevgeny Primakov continued his push to wring the maximum possible concessions out of the U.S. before NATO begins its eastward expansion. With the Russian Foreign Minister taking an increasingly hard line towards expansion, Clinton laid several concessions out on the table. Among them were a charter to give Russian more participation in NATO proceedings, joint peacekeeping operations similar to those in Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy troops in substantial numbers in newly admitted states. But because none of the proposals addressed one of Russia's most...