Word: schtick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been tempting to say, and some people did say: 'Life was a lot nicer back on the farm. Everybody back the farms, please, where we could leave the kids to play and they could make their own friends, and we didn't have to go through this Boy Scouts schtick...
...masculinity, he's been turned into a sniveling idiot by the One Woman Love Machine. He still buys her diamonds and expensive gifts and tries to be her best friend; she gladly uses them and loses him.) But Gwyneth turned us all into cynics with that miserable awards schtick she pulled last year. At the Golden Globes, the SAGS and the Oscars, she cried through each one of her speeches and added a new traumatized family member to her thank-you list. Her father, her cousin, her mother, her dear friend "Mr. Affleck," her brother's nephew's toddler...
...Hanks, Saving Private Ryan: TomHanks is America's good man, our decent soldier.The parts that he takes tend to be sointrinsically sympathetic that, combined with hisclassic stoic-yet-vulnerable schtick, it's almostoverkill. Almost, but not quite; no one can denyHanks' talent as an actor. However, Ryan's CaptainMiller is not his best role. And since Hanks hasalready strutted his stuff twice before for a BestActor award, the Academy may be less willing toreward him yet again-which is part of what makesthe Best Actor race so exciting and tough to callthis year...
...J.T.T., this role barely differs from his normal schtick on "Home Improvement" it might as well be another hour of "TGI Friday" on ABC. Part of the problem is that he's a teen trying to act 21-he simply looks too young to be playing a college student. This stretches the believability of the story from the beginning, when the caption "Palisades College" flashes onto the screen as we see Jake and his freshfaced sidekick, Ian, walking past a row of lockers...
...Clinton," added Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.). Linder and other party luminaries expect a 10-to-15-seat Republican gain in the House next Tuesday. Anything less than that, and Clinton will be able to claim he's bridged another divide -- whether or not his eleventh-hour stump-speech schtick had anything to do with...