Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the U.S. thinks the war is over, somebody apparently forgot to tell the Iraqis. A day after firing on U.S. planes patrolling the country's northern no-fly zone, Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan said his country is challenging the U.S. presence by conducting flights in the restricted area. Trying to take the "no" out of "no-fly zone" is Iraq's latest way of tweaking the U.S., following Sunday's announcement (and then retraction) that Iraq would expel U.N. oil-for-food inspectors. And the Iraqi government continues to put on an aggressive front, saying it shot...
...trembling chins up, around the tree for their first and last Christmas as an inspiringly functional extended family. Under Chris Columbus' direction, they make a pretty but utterly misleading picture in which cheap sentiment is used to supply easy, false resolutions to agonizing issues. It doesn't help to tell lies, even saving ones, about such matters. It may even be immoral...
...also have done without Nolte's self-crucifixion scene. But the actor finds truth in Wade's emotional clumsiness, in the despair of a man who hasn't the tools or the cool to survive. There are too many of these men in life, and not enough films that tell their sad tales. That gives Affliction a therapeutic worth...
...timers used to tell me that taking part in Roosevelt's New Deal was one of the greatest political experiences in history. Any good idea got a hearing. Those programs that did not work were torn up, and the young, brainy aides would start over the next day. At night, when Roosevelt gathered his band of political warriors around him, there was robust laughter and the tinkle of his martini pitcher and his long cigarette holder pointed at a rakish angle, which signaled to everybody that the U.S. was rising from its fear...
...great fortunes. We traveled more, we had bigger homes and more servants. I learned about the Depression by reading at Harvard." Kennedy, who had been a young Navy hero in World War II, then looked at me and said, "War was my experience. I can tell you about that...