Word: reno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Barbra Streisand Earlier in the year she was the most visible partner in the love affair between Hollywood and Washington: she sang for Bill Clinton, she dined with Janet Reno, she buddied up to Colin Powell. Somewhere along the line, Streisand shifted gears from Political Animal to Very-Well-Paid Vegas Casino Act, making two multimillion-dollar New Year's appearances at MGM's Grand...
...Worst Network Violence The airing of jeremiads from Attorney General Janet Reno and other D.C. solons against TV mayhem. Unable to reduce the crime rate by law or enforcement, they hope to do it by reducing the minuscule amount of violence on prime time. Killing the network messenger will change nothing, since the real carnage is on cable -- and the nightly news...
...decent programming into it. Biosphere II might be a good place to lock away all those fun couples -- Burt and Loni, John and Lorena, Ted and Whoopi -- until they sort things out. But this is science fiction, mere dreamery. Art doesn't solve problems any more than (pace Janet Reno) it creates them. What art does, or did this year, is review those thorny issues in the past tense. So much of 1993's art amounted to a gigantic act of pained remembrance. Experience the Holocaust, in a museum or a movie. Look clearly at Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy...
...York, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, has called for hearings as well. But so far the committee's Democratic chairman, Donald Riegle of Michigan, has said he would rather let the Justice Department's investigation run its course. In the same vein, Attorney General Janet Reno rejected calls last week for her to appoint a special counsel to take over her department's investigations into Guaranty. She explained that since anyone appointed by her would still be seen as her operative, it would be better for experienced department investigators to carry on. With Reno's blessing, Justice officials...
...Reno, Nevada, the Truckee River took a shortcut through town, forcing government offices, the celebrated Mustang Ranch brothel and--for the first time in memory--several casinos to shut down...