Word: spate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ivan Reitman, who directed Dave, believes the spate of White House movies may be in part a kind of narcissistic reaction to the Clinton presidency: the fact that Clinton, like many of those in power in Hollywood, is an unabashed baby boomer has made the office seem more accessible. "He's just like me," Reitman says. "He's my age. He probably smoked pot. There are a lot of commonalities." "He's more available to us," agrees Bernstein, who means "available" socioculturally as well as literally. The President's proclivity for hobnobbing with show-biz folk is well known...
WASHINGTON: Another spate of memos and documents released by bitter former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes is casting in harsher light the extent to which the Clinton presidency and the DNC became, in the hunt for re-election, nearly indistinguishable. One memo described the re-election fix Democrats were in by late 1995: "no cash on hand, a $7 million bank debt, and approximately $1.5 to $2.0 million in obligations. Not a particularly satisfying situation." According to the memo, the DNC would need $180 million by Election day. That would require White House residents to pitch...
McVeigh's defense team has been understandably chagrined by the recent spate of negative stories. Says his lead lawyer, Stephen Jones: "I feel like I've been in the ring with Joe Louis. But I'm still on my feet. It's been a character-building experience." Nevertheless, sources say, members of his team feel the media disclosures have made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for McVeigh to get an acquittal. Still, Jones will press on. This week he will raise questions about a wider conspiracy by asking the government to hand over all evidence pertaining to Carol Howe...
...Coppola/Puzio chef d'oeuvre will make its 25th anniversary return to theaters nationwide, with re-mastered sound as frosting on the birthday cake of an already incredible cinematic experience. Yet the imminent return of the don to the never-big-enough screen as well as the recent spate of mafia movies a la Donnie Bosco left me groping for the key to the mafia's popularity. Is it the films' documentary style? Are the Goodfellas so real they become funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown funny...
Reynolds Kendrick Stratton's practices touched off a spate of litigation by investors as well as a probe by the nasd, forcing the company to pay out settlements, arbitration awards and fines. A March 1994 expose in BusinessWeek highlighted Kott's "consulting" role and revealed that Kott and some of the investors he had helped bring into the brokerage company were major shareholders of Hariston...