Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Disney's "Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill" is not a cartoon. But don't let that turn you off of this worthwhile adventure. It's 1905, somewhere in the American West, and Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl) is chafing against life on his family's farm. "I hate this farm! It's just a dried-up, miserable piece of land!" he yells to his father, Jonas (Stephen Lang, looking like he just wandered in from a Biblical movie...
...perception that he is or has been self-indulgent. It's not just the President's past personal life, say Republicans; it is more the perception that Clinton is unfocused, an issue surfer who grabs at whatever the polls reveal as fashionable at the moment. "When the President stands tall against a middle-class tax cut and in favor of deficit reduction in 1993 and then supports the opposite in 1994, that's not good," says a Clinton adviser. "In a job that demands an adult, the President is viewed as an adolescent...
...Enter, enter," the tall, skinny man right inside the door beckons. All I can see are red wooden signs that circle the room: Danger Third Rail, they read. The crowd inside--one baseball cap, three berets--is mostly hip people in their mid-40s. I put the cigarette back in my pocket...
...semi-nude exhibitionists crowding the famed boardwalk, the building at 340 Main Street is an attention grabber. The three-story edifice, headquarters of the Chiat/Day advertising agency, is wrapped in brick beams and topped by a concrete slab, and its entrance is straddled by a pair of 100- ft.-tall black binoculars. Inside, the building is even more remarkable. Gone are the choice corner offices where agency executives once held forth, the cubicles once occupied by their secretaries, the once ubiquitous rows of filing cabinets. Executive chairs have been replaced by couches, business phones by the portable, flip-top variety...
Quintin Stephen was often in Denver to do business. Back in Los Angeles, he ran Nu U Productions, a recording studio whose stable included several rap acts. But the 6-ft.-tall, conservatively dressed Angeleno was not in Colorado to sell music. He was there as ``Q,'' the name he went by on the streets of Los Angeles, where police and the FBI say he belonged to the Eight Trey Gangster Crips. Q was out to expand his criminal franchise. And he found the perfect recruit...