Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, spent the day downplaying reports that he said four more Senate Democrats will retire next year, leaving a threatening seven seats open toGOP challengesin 1996. In Thursday's editions of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, Kerrey was quoted as naming Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Howell Heflin of Alabama, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and David Pryor of Arkansas as potential retirees. Today, Kerrey demurred: "There are additional members who have not decided whether or not they're going to run for re-election." Pell, 76, said he hadn't yet decided...
...shirts and pins on the House floor, a strange alliance of anti-abortion Republicans and liberal Democrats tried -- and failed -- to derail the"Contract With America" welfare reform billthis morning. Soon the shouting began: "Will you get these highly paid members to sit down and shut up?" roared Rep. Sam Gibbons (D-Fla.). Other Democrats then erupted when several Republicans backed an amendment to use up to $70 billion in savings from the welfare program to fund tax cuts, rather than ease the deficit, as the "Contract With America" promises. "They're calling it a 'technical correction' -- like a typo...
...Sam, an Army doctor, is the only person with the expertise, the guts and, dammit, the nobility to solve this apocalyptic poser. Screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool have given him a requisition brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint...
...Sam could stanch the epidemic in a trice were it not for that old bogeyman the nut case Army general (Donald Sutherland, eyes rolling goofily). Appar-ently a killer virus, the threat of plague, a White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...
When the curtain rises on Central Park West, we realize we're back in Allenland--that ingenious, engaging and occasionally claustrophobic terrain. We know the props: shrink jokes, sexual put-downs, etc. Debra Monk is Phyllis, a psychotherapist who, having discovered that her husband Sam (Guilfoyle) is unfaithful, seeks solace from her friend Carol (Lavin). Or so it seems. Turns out that Phyllis isn't looking for comfort but revenge: she suspects it is Carol her husband has been sleeping with. Carol counters by announcing that she and Sam, desperately in love, will be moving to London...