Word: slow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Music is a game of averages, and Davis certainly doesn't bat .1000; Puff Daddy's solo album Forever is off to a slow start. But Arista has created enough hits to help lift the market share of its corporate parent BMG from 14% to 18%, second only to the Universal Music Group...
...1970s Soviet doctors routinely used scalpels to reshape the corneas of nearsighted patients in an operation called radial keratotomy. But the surgery, involving a spokelike ring of incisions, never really caught on in the U.S., because the results were so difficult to predict and the healing process was often slow and painful...
...Dogme is as much a game as it is a cult. Indeed, Korine broke nearly every commandment; like Rasputin, he wants to sin so he can repent. At the beginning he stages a violent death (Rule 6). At the end he credits himself (Rule 10). In between he uses slow motion, stop motion, superimposition, all kinds of optical tricks (Rule 5). And the vaunted Dogme "simplicity"? This is 1999's most mannered film. And, though smartly shot with digital video equipment, the most fakey: three actors mingling with the disabled and dispossessed. Nothing screams artifice so much as the collision...
DIED. DONALD SANDERS, 69, G.O.P. staff lawyer for the Senate committee that investigated Watergate, who uncovered the existence of Nixon's White House tapes; of cancer; in Columbia, Mo. During a slow-going interview with Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield, a persistent Sanders asked if recording devices were ever used. "I wish you hadn't asked," Butterfield said...
...Denver psychotherapist and director of Parenting After Divorce, emphasizes that "though the family logistics can be a nightmare, everyone has to think about what's best for the kids." With no biological connection, stepgrandparents don't see themselves reflected in the child and so must create the connection. "Go slow," advises Robert Klopfer, co-director of Stepping Stones Counseling Center in Ridgewood...