Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...fails on a common Hollywood fallacy: that because people lap up celebrity tattle and flock to movie-studio tours, they must be fascinated by the nuts and bolts of filmmaking. Last Action Hero (which is the ultimate studio tour as surely as Jurassic Park is the ultimate theme-park ride) starts out mostly nuts, and winds up mostly bolts. Or, rather, winds down. That's a problem with pastiche: it must be constantly jump-started with ingenuity, and even that ultimately pales. By the end, nothing matters...
...fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really more in sympathy with Moynihan than with his Administration. The question remained, to use the words of a powerful lobbyist...
...pays elaborate homage -- Gertie the Dinosaur, King Kong (and its Universal theme-park spin-off, Kongfrontation), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Godzilla, Bringing Up Baby -- this one sometimes creaks when it's not playing with the beasties. For the first half-hour -- the preshow before the thrill ride -- you are advised to bide your time. Screenwriter David Koepp's subplot, in which a paleontologist (Sam Neill) is force-fed lessons in fatherhood by his paleobotanist girlfriend (Laura Dern), is laid on with a trowel. And the plot occasionally beggars belief. If you were up a huge tree...
Guinier's demise was doubly demoralizing, coming on the heels of David Gergen's appointment, which horrified many of Clinton's eager young staff members. Gergen, back from a vacation in Bermuda that included a boat ride with Ross Perot, spent part of his first full day at work wandering the halls and hanging around the takeout window of the White House mess, greeting his colleagues like a maitre d'. In his first meeting with the communications staff, Gergen tried irony to defuse suspicion among the Young Turks, identifying nearby offices as the old haunts of former colleagues like William...