Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the people at the MTA have a sick sense of humor, but they're probably just incompetent and out of touch. After all, MTA executives don't have to ride the subway--chauffeured cars transport them to work and back. Thus, MTA fails to institute simpler and more cost effective ways of improving the subways, like adding more trains during rush hour, fixing broken air conditioning systems and keeping stations and trains cleaner...
...movie was too violent for children under 13 or 14, after which attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood for pregnant teenagers and a boycott of Disney, Americans saw their jobs being downsized and their schools falling apart...
...else seemed to. In fact, in his error, the governor allowed me the rare opportunity to get in front of the Harvard label. When I came home from my first day of work in the governor's office, I remarked sarcastically to my parents that things might be simpler if I just got a big red "H" tattooed on my forehead. I felt like I had been robbed of the chance to make a first impression: the world Harvard had made enough impression for both...
Trimming the number of films is simpler than cutting production and advertising budgets. Ironically the most aggressive trimmer has been Disney, the same company that started the more-is-better strategy a few years ago. Studio chairman Joe Roth says the company will cut its output from 35 movies a year to 18; creative types are already bracing for a Disney downsizing...
...perhaps the most implausible sequence even of this movie, he lands a rent-controlled--and roach-controlled--apartment. Joe then spends his time split unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired and slo-mo, she tends a garden niche and hopes to convert a local lot into Eden before her senator father (Robert Vaughn) makes it a prison Hell...