Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President stood tall, in Iraq as in Haiti, and the tyrants backed down -- it all should have made for a happy ending. Someone even faxed the White House the headline from the New York Daily News: CLINTON 2, BULLIES 0! Clinton liked it so much he asked chief of staff Leon Panetta to get him a copy. So how was it that even as the forces of Operation Vigilant Warrior steamed into the Persian Gulf, Clinton's sweet victory became so sticky? The President won near universal praise for a fast and firm response to Saddam's latest challenge...
...specific parallel between Steve and another primitive creature imported to amuse jaded New Yorkers -- King Kong -- and it is a measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids the kind of sentiment that so often encrusts tall sporting tales, and even gets a funny performance out of baseball's very own Kong, Yankee boss George Steinbrenner. The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right...
...There's more to it than just a cup of coffee," gushes Laura Moix, Starbucks media relations manager. She cites the hours of classroom training and "bar training" for all Starbucks employees in the preparation of everything from a double tall half-caff skinny latte to a grande americano with room...
...most daring and stimulating scene is the one which introduces Monica to Geraldine, Gerald's female persona. Gerald goes through a slow and shadowy transformation into a new creature, strange but not grotesque to Monica. Monica becomes child-like, awed by the change and is seduced by the tall, bewigged Geraldine...
...formerly disgraced Ed Rollins (who claimed, then later denied that he paid black ministers for their indifference to help his New Jersey gubernatorial candidate) and admaker Larry McCarthy (of Willie Horton fame). They have made him virtually tamperproof. Republican Congressman Robert Lagomarsino couldn't crack his veneer when the tall Texan appeared out of nowhere to beat him in 1992. Nor could Huffington's Senate primary opponent, former Congressman William Dannemeyer. Huffington sent his wife Arianna Stassinopoulos to debate Dannemeyer -- six times -- instead of going himself. "Campaigning against Huffington," says Dannemeyer, "is like running against a missing person...