Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like all of us, Bob Jones (Michael Keaton) has a death sentence hanging over him. But the clock is ticking faster for Bob: his kidney cancer has spread to his lungs and brain. Nothing can save him, not his youth, his cushy show-biz job, his loving wife (Nicole Kidman) or the child she carries inside her. Nor is he comforted by memories of a childhood disconnected from his working-class parents. So Bob decides to videotape a few remarks...
...Administration officials have studied -- and dismissed -- the possibility of launching an air strike to wipe out the communist regime's nuclear program. The locations of North Korea's nuclear reactors are known, but analysis has shown they could not be destroyed without releasing unacceptable levels of radioactivity that could spread through East Asia. With the surgical-air- strike option now off the table, diplomatic pressure and economic embargoes, ineffective so far, are the chief remaining options...
Although nearly all Harvardians predict a Crimson win, some are more realistic than others about the point spread between Harvard and Yale...
Lynch foresees an even wider point spread between the two rivals. "Joe cruises out on top and into retirement with a 31 to 14 win," he said...
...think if Merlyn had been either played as a farce or on a much smaller scale there would have been the necessary balance of ambition and talent to make it a success, or at least entertaining. What we have at the Mainstage is a whole lot of ambition being spread thinly over many different elements. As a result, the music and book are weak and the technical aspects suffer (sets and costumes are handled with the grace of an elementary school production...