Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quick flip-through, by male in jokey mood: Woman sociologist gets big grant, does ten years of research, writes book proving that men don't do housework. Complains...
Reality: Few military ventures succeed exactly as planned. While the plan calls for a quick kidnapping, no contingency apparently is made for the Lebanese neighbor who ventures out of his home to investigate and is fatally shot...
...conflict, a little sex. Good stuff for a movie? Good enough for a pair of terrific movies: When Harry Met Sally . . . , written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner; and sex, lies, and videotape, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Their characters are quick and engaging; they could be the thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve...
...humdrum Kansas. There, in Dorothy's native land, he finds not a winding yellow brick road but a grid of blacktop highways crossing one another at predictable right angles. Instead of tin men and cowardly lions, there is a pride of stolid citizens unashamed of their placid routines and quick with the thank-yous and have-a-nice-days. Wicked witches? Nope, but there is a local drunk who tells dirty jokes...
B.A.T immediately slapped down last week's bid. Chairman Patrick Sheehy described the offer as "no more than an ill-conceived attempt at destructive financial engineering," designed to give the raiders a quick payout by stripping the company's assets. London investors questioned the feasibility of Goldsmith's financing, while corporate chieftains feared he might set off a rash of leveraged takeover raids...