Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devotes his talents to solving the row between director Woody Allen and actor Mia Farrow, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz once again finds himself in the thick of a New York tabloid frenzy...
Another conflict has broken out requiring fast action by the United Nations Security Council. Alas, this one is in the council's own chamber. The row between U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the U.N.'s center of power turned even more acrimonious when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly...
This weekend I discovered "Mystery Science Theater 3000." The show's premise: a human being and two robots are being held captive by mad scientists who make them watch bad, bad, bad science fiction movies. Throughout the film, the three sit in the front row of a movie theater, commenting drily on the acting, the plot and the script--all of which are crummy, very crummy...
...fell asleep a lot. My feeling is, if the movie itself is awful, nothing's going to save it, not pre-Claymation giant lizards on the big screen, not wisecracks from an actor and two puppets who acknowledge the misery of it all from their front-row seats...
...June 10, 1986, to Doug Mackie, a marine-construction expert hired by Perot's main contractor, Bermuda Engineering Associates. Mackie got more explosives the following day. A cheerful man who is one of Bermuda's handful of licensed blasters, Mackie says his job for Perot involved drilling a row of holes in the seabed, filling each with several sticks of dynamite, and detonating them electrically with a battery kept on his barge. On several occasions, he says, Perot put on snorkel gear and "dove the site with us and watched the drilling going on." Perot then watched from the shore...