Word: skulk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lobby of the Chateau Marmont, a venerable Hollywood hotel located on the grungy end of the Sunset Strip, is one of Los Angeles' prime celebrity loci. It's a place where young male movie stars skulk about on bright, hot days in dark leather jackets and knit O.J. caps, as if they were second-story men in an old Dick Tracy comic. And here too, representing the not so tormented, not so still-living-in-James-Dean's-shadow side of stardom, we find Tori Spelling. She bounces in on top of a pair of bright-orange platform flip-flops...
Noir! The very word sounds like a French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain...
...people to know that there is a central core in him that they can relate to and trust. "When they know me better, they will know that about me." Just by making it to the arena, after all the rough and bitter days and nights when he did not skulk away, Clinton has shown that there is some iron in that core. Unlike Perot, he does not quit when he tires of the ordeal or blame others for his troubles. Clinton will find out in November whether the public came to know him better this week and liked what they...
...deal? Only dreamers still hope that the Prime Minister's hard line is a negotiating gambit. Realists know better. Most skulk away depressed. Some summon the courage to strike back, as George Bush is doing...
Tough competition calls for unfamiliar methods. Members of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce are not the sort of people who skulk around to clandestine meetings, but the city is hungry for new business, and, by golly, they're willing to do what it takes. When a relocation consultant brought a corporate team to town to see what Greater Cincinnati could offer, the visitors insisted on complete secrecy. No problem! Eight Cincinnati corporate leaders gathered in a small club dining room to sing the praises of their town to "Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike," four strangers identified only...