Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SARAJEVO: Although it takes considerable chutzpah to keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy...
...mesmerized as we watch this cabbie who is in turn obsessed with the "scum" around him. In Travis's words, he sees how "all the animals come out at night," and hopes that "someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." Failing that, Travis attempts the same himself, ultimately seeking a sort of immortality, whether as an assassin of a political figure (the Senator, candidate for president) or as a noble representative of clean justice. To the very last minute of the film (when the screen changes to an eerie negative), "Taxi Driver" absorbs...
...last week both leaders had adopted that time-honored, sweet-and-sour strategy for knocking the other guy off: make nice on the ground; rain fire from the air. Forbes, who knows his political history, learned the tactic from Ronald Reagan, and thus has managed to appear sunny and sincere in his speeches while running a dark and at times deceitful media campaign. Surprisingly, it was Dole, the cautious veteran, who took a long time to split his personality. Dole's staffers actually toughened the rhetoric in the days following his brittle response to Clinton's State of the Union...
...danced on roller skates and garbage-can lids (It's Always Fair Weather). And then, of course, there was that umbrella, that downpour, that bepuddled street and that befuddled cop, out of which he and Stanley Donen, his creative partner in all these enterprises, created Singin' in the Rain's signature sequence--and one of the movies' most privileged moments...
...manipulative. Through annoying direction and a terrible script, you are forced to care about all of the characters, setting up an emotional windfall after several of them drown. However, if you're too busy laughing at lines like, "Do you know what's out there? Some wind and rain and some damn big waves," you'll hardly have time...