Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news is good for the movie's core audience, the Clearasil crowd. The problem may be that Zucker, in his maturity--O.K., O.K., that's another stretch--has social satire on his mind. His target is big-time sports, and he casts Parker and Stone as purists, good-natured rather than transgressive, trying to protect the eponymous game they invented (it combines hoop shooting with baseball scoring) from commercialization when it moves from their driveway to professional arenas...
...fine, the audience appreciates the ex-boxer's earnest, humble hard work as much as the laughs. "I used to come off really cool, and people would yell, 'Get off!' And I thought it would be better to move around a lot," he explains. "The philosophy is, a moving target is hard to hit." Evans has had hit TV specials in England where he sells out arenas of 5,000 people. He has yet to hit it big here, but his parts in Mouse Hunt and There's Something About Mary prove that his simple comedy can translate...
...entrances, building passes required for employees and reporters, anti-terrorist planters installed in the parking lots, streets near the Russell Office Building closed off and sweeps by bomb-sniffing dogs ordered. There have been proposals every so often to tighten security at such an obvious target; for instance, to close the Capitol plaza to the public and install a wrought-iron fence around the building's 130-acre grounds, like the one that encircles the White House. But such measures have always been voted down in favor of maintaining the informality of access...
Blockbuster's recent success bears that out. The company owned barely 25% of the rental market at the start of the year; now it has a 30% share, and Antioco expects to reach his goal of 40% well ahead of his five-year target. Shirley Poulekidas, a retiree in Chicago, will help him do it. "Anytime I've looked for a new release, it's been there--since they put that sign up," she says, pointing to a guarantee billboard...
...only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than being a stationary...