Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just $140 billion lower than what it otherwise would have been. After that it would rise again rapidly, reaching $465 billion by 2004, about 4.6% of that year's projected GDP. The President's deficit-reduction plan fell short because its main element was a tax increase on a sliver of American households -- the 1.2% earning about $180,000 or more...
Watching Deathtrap at the Loeb Experimental Theater is like walking through a House of Mirrors at a local country fair. Both are chock full of unexpected twists, false realities and good cheap thrills. Written by Ira Levin (author Rosemary's Baby, Sliver), this play about a play about a play mercilessly examines the question of whether it is life that imitates art or vice-versa...
...painstakingly drafted, covering -- at least in outline -- the most sensitive concerns of both sides. It provides, first of all, for ! Israeli withdrawal from the 140-sq.-mi. Gaza Strip, with its 770,000 Palestinians, and from Jericho, an ancient, somnolent Jordan Valley town of about 20,000, a thin sliver of the 1 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank...
Like "RoboCop" and "Basic Instinct," "Hard Target" went through the same tortuous wrangling with the MPAA ratings board; a prologue to the release of "naughty" films which became trite with the blatantly orchestrated flap over "Sliver." Reportedly, "Target" had to be whittled at seven times before it could earn an "R" rating...
...dealt with the best. Madam to the stars and moguls, foreign and domestic, Heidi prospered for three heady years, reaping 40% of her girls' earnings. A slim and attractive 27, she hung out in the best joints, was seen with the likes of Billy Idol, Sliver producer Robert Evans, and Victoria Sellers, Peter's daughter. She lived in a $1.6 million Benedict Canyon mansion (Hollywoodese for house), whose previous occupant was Michael Douglas and whose current owner is her father, Los Angeles pediatrician Paul Fleiss. She threw a smashing party there for none other than Mick Jagger. Jack Nicholson showed...