Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ready to roll," Stanton said...
Gillian Sorensen, U.N. Under Secretary-General, responded that A Vision of Hope was intended to be a commemorative volume and not a history of the U.N. As the 50th-anniversary celebrations roll on, the distinction Sorensen draws between history and self-congratulation is probably worth bearing in mind...
Will he then roll the dice? He is certainly not saying now. Neither is anyone close to him. Powell and his friends agree that one important vote will come from Alma, the general's wife of 32 years. What is her verdict? "Alma's not opining," says a Powell friend. "But her name isn't Sherman." If elected, she will serve...
...Judge Dredd with a macho hauteur that seems to say, "Who's tougher than me?" And the answer is, the bosses of the major film studios. Compared with them, Stallone and his fellow summer-movie heroes--those mean-eyed, pumped-up, epigram-expectoratin' cinema studs--are prissy little honor-roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition. This is the art of war, New Hollywood-style...
...whole 'nice' thing has been overplayed," contends Michael Keaton, who starred in Howard's first studio film, Night Shift, as well as in the director's later features Gung Ho and The Paper. "He can make cold, hard decisions when he needs to. It's not like he rolls over. He does anything but roll over." Says Howard: "I'm not real neurotic, so I don't heap pressure on people unnecessarily. But if we're falling behind schedule or missing something artistically, it doesn't take a hell of a lot for me to let that be known...