Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot hops around about as much as its stars: a training academy, prison camp, hotel resort, rural village, drug kingpin's estate and more. The core duo, what you're paying money to see, is Chan as the eponymous cop from Hong Kong and Michelle Khan as a stern police chief from China. Together they whirl their way through disguises and bluffs in an effort to dismantle a drug ring. The presence of the Supercop's girlfriend, played by Maggie Cheung, allows for some funny misunderstandings...
Chan plays all this with an easy-going manner; as the plucky hero, he effectively gives the impression that he really is enjoying the fighting frenzy. Khan's police chief tries to be stern and businesslike, but even she lets the movie's infectious hyperactivity make her character giddy, as when, loaded with dynamite, she squirms and hops to use Chan as a human shield...
...demand for a fixed number of seats. And that's why stars are worth so much," notes economist and sports expert Roger Noll of Stanford University. Last year the N.B.A. took in some $1.4 billion, excluding licensed merchandise, and its revenues are increasing some 15% annually. N.B.A. commissioner David Stern's global strategy has helped boost demand for the game. The N.B.A. is becoming as popular in Zagreb as it is in Chicago. Here the owners are counting on a fat increase when their network contract comes due in 1998. The current one, with NBC, pays them $187.5 million...
...portrait being offered is stern but loving. It's of Clinton's cracking down on truants, on hoodlums who sell guns to kids, on deadbeat dads and teenage welfare moms while embracing a larger group of pro-family initiatives. In just the past two months he has been waging campaigns against teenage smoking and drug use while promoting plans to make meat safer, put more educational programming on television, give working parents more flextime and offer tax credits to pay for college tuition. Of these proposals, only the last two require action from Congress...
...race is theirs to lose. But if he doesn't push them, he believes, no one will. One day, as the Eight begin oaring down the river, he buzzes alongside them like a particularly persistent gnat, detailing the flaws in each woman's stroke, moving from bow to stern. When he is finished, he says, "That was just a quick tour...