Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cities around the globe, then send out a heat ray that pulverizes every urban center. Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow--all barbecued. On July 3 the U.S. President (Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July 4, ID4 has soared into flyboy heaven for the climactic dogfight between Us and the Evil Other. You saw the movie's trailer--didn't it promise you fireworks? All right, ID4 delivers...
...subway, as on the sidewalks, no one is going to give you an inch without a fight; all around us, people were plopping down huge blankets in tiny plots of ground, daring you not to move over. It didn't seem like a promising atmosphere for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," surely one of the sappiest films ever to come from that master of sap, Frank Capra...
...along with this undertone was a clear desire to meet Capra halfway, to be taken in by Senator Smith's crazy idealism. Just like an audience seeing the movie in 1939, this one booed the corrupt party boss, sighed when Jean Arthur confessed her love and cheered when they hypocritical Claude Rains broke down and admitted how right Jimmy had been all along. It wasn't a total transformation; everyone knew that, when the lights went out, they would be walking back to an empty subway in the dark, and the defensive glower would have to return...
...went, she and her two young sons were sleeping in the family's first-floor living room when a man came through the window, murdered the boys and then stabbed her before fleeing. But late Tuesday night, Dallas police announced that Routier's story was no truer than Susan Smith's. Like the South Carolina woman who falsely claimed that a carjacker had abducted her children, Routier had pleaded for help in finding the killer. But as the investigation took shape, TIME's Carlton Stowers reports, inconsistencies in her story led them to doubt her. (Blood evidence, for example, showed...
...went, she and her two young sons were sleeping in the family's first-floor living room when a man came through the window, murdered the boys and then stabbed her before fleeing. But late Tuesday night, Dallas police announced that Routier's story was no truer than Susan Smith's. Like the South Carolina woman who falsely claimed that a carjacker had abducted her children, Routier had pleaded for help in finding the killer. But as the investigation took shape, TIME's Carlton Stowers reports, inconsistencies in her story led them to doubt her. (Blood evidence, for example, showed...