Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...
...seemed unassuming and kind, she added. Onlyabout 5 feet tall, Ho was "very slight, [and] inher demeanor very Asian, in the sense of [being]very retiring, very demure," the sophomore said...
...president and co-founder Robin Steele, Ambergene scientists have identified filamentous fungi similar to those that have produced a distinguished line of antibiotics. They have also brewed batches of ale with ancient yeast. Beer buff Cano was named official taster of the new brew, dubbed Jurassic Amber Ale (a slight misnomer since the yeast used to make it did not come from the Jurassic period, which ended 144 million years ago, but from more recent geological epochs.) Quipped Steele to Cano: "We're not going to drink this. We'll let you drink it and see if you survive...
...third installment, "Die Hard With a Vengeance," reunites Bruce Willis with John McTiernan (director of the original "Die Hard"). Like "Return of the Jedi," the new movie is a slight let-down in a from the first two. But a slight let-down in a third movie is a great success in a world that has produced "Beverly Hills Cop III." This latest "Die Hard" movie cements its place at the top of the action movie pyramid...
...course, the crowing feature of all sitcoms is that everything is resolved within a wild and wacky 30 minutes. This phenonmenon ensures that no American will be burdened by even the slightest worry, if some slight emotional concern did happen to develop during the course of an episode. Next week, in most cases, they start all over again. If it weren't for the factors' aging sitcoms wold have complete inertia. Not that aging makes too much of a difference--the characters don't lose any vacuousness as they mauture physically...