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...took quite some time to take shape. It began as a script by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), then got spun and spindled: Tarantino is credited with the story, Stone and his collaborators David Veloz and Richard Rutowski with the screenplay. Meanwhile, NBK was acquiring a bizarre new resonance. "When I started," says Stone, "this was a surreal piece. Now, thanks to Bobbitt and Menendez and Tonya Harding, it's become satire. By the time I'd finished, fact had caught up to fiction. O.J. is the final blowout...
...walking dead" include Jean Hanson, the Treasury counsel, and hapless diarist Josh Steiner, Treasury Department chief of staff. Also watch for the President's popularity to dip even further. "It seemed as if a lot of officials inside the White House were evasive," says Ratan. "It adds to the reservoir of doubt that a lot of people have about this Administration...
...that." So recalls Greg Gurbach, a field construction manager for Chevron, of the company's initial sortie into the mountainous jungle that surrounds Lake Kutubu, one of the most pristine spots in the South Pacific. The year was 1986; Chevron headed a consortium that had come to explore a reservoir 1.5 miles beneath the jungle floor that was thought to contain 225 million bbl. of high-quality...
...team's efforts brought it a seventh-place finish in the league, a finish slightly deceiving because of an unusually successful reservoir of talent in the league. Princeton, for example, the eventual NCAA champion, could only muster a second-place finish behind Brown...
...Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over. Now, pay attention...