Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politics as usual is not what America voted for last November. Unfortunately, it's what we're getting. Newt Gingrich's House of representatives has had its fifteen minutes in the sun. Now the Senate has the chance to prove whether it really is "the world's greatest deliberative body...
...bright morning sun. A rust-brown train under mortar fire. Gray figures in panic scrambling to hide. Faces wrapped in swaths of white. A muddy ditch. And along a hillside, red crosses...
...well as the less successful Intersection, Mixed Nuts and My Father, the Hero) were based on French films; so is Nine Months, a comedy about an expectant couple (Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore). The high grosses of three Michael Crichton novels-into-films in two years (Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure) had something to do with Paramount's decision to explore Congo...
...disarmed by the sweetness of this life, so richly detailed by Mikhalkov. The genius of his film lies in his refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining, the music playing. And the way Sergei clings to his ordinariness even as he's carried off, trying to preserve it for his family to the end, is unbearably poignant...
Graceful, charming, deliberate, Nelson Mandela is the sun whose gravity holds the disparate elements of South African society in peaceful orbit. As his country prepares to celebrate the anniversary of its first democratic elections, he permits Time the exclusive opportunity to spend a day with...