Word: snipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesse Helms may still end up atop the Foreign Relations Committee come January, but the North Carolina Republican's snipe Monday that President Clinton had "better have a bodyguard" if he visited bases in Helms' state is playing badly throughout military ranks,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays. Predictably, Democrats blasted Helms -- White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta last night suggested the GOP rethink whether someone with such "extreme views" should chair such a powerful committee -- but many of the generals and G.I.s Helms claimed to speak for were also shocked. "Even those who have great disdain for Clinton...
...ever since sex, lies and videotape was the surprise hit of the 1989 event, the affair has become Hollywood's annual home away from home for 10 days in late January. Festivalgoers complain about the overcrowded screenings (nearly all the hot films are sold out weeks in advance); reporters snipe about the proliferation of cellular phones on Main Street. Even Redford, speaking to the filmmakers / gathered for the closing-night awards ceremony, felt obliged to take note of the "hype about cellular phones and jets. That's outer-space stuff. It doesn't mean anything . . . This festival...
Mulhern's top-corner snipe past a screened Israel put a pretty lid on the evening of hockey, but those 3,033 intrepid alumni and students that braved the cold and distance to reach Bright suffered through a game of pumpkin-pie consistency--thick and gooey...
...movie censors slap an X rating on the discreetly erotic Henry & June, presaging a battle royal in the industry. -- Streep and MacLaine snipe and shine in Postcards from the Edge...