Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bleak of winter, when they brave all manner of snow and ice to see films about angst set amidst the very same snow and ice. This month alone, we have films about a schoolbus crashing in the snow, a town struck by an ice storm and Emma Thompson as a widow who takes pictures of snow and ice. No kidding; these folks can be a chilly bunch...
...movie has a number at the end of its title that, in cases like ID4, they will actually add one where none exists. They like attractive, squabbling, invariably "brilliant" scientists who do stupid things: piss off dinosaurs, drive into tornadoes, piss off dinosaurs AGAIN. Plus, these people hate Emma Thompson, because she was in that dumb pregnant-man movie with their pal Ah-nuld. What was up with that...
...Clinton's calculated caution will disappoint Republicans, for whom Kyoto has already become the first real battleground of the 2000 election (not to mention the '98 budget and midterms). For the first time since Fred Thompson's hearings disbanded, the GOP smells blood ? and its best chance to sink some teeth into the Vice President...
...military has generally done what it wanted to do, regardless of these Presidential Policy Directives," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And Clinton needs the military so badly, he's not going to challenge them." Nor will the President tell us about it when he does: this directive was signed last month, and the press was only informed Sunday...
...would be easy to blame the worsening situation on the Republicans. If Fred Thompson would get back to writing legislation, if Trent Lott cared a little more about his country and a little less about his party, if Jesse Helms would just get off his high horse...But the responsibility to make Washington more productive does not lie solely with the GOP. Rather than lead the Democrats back to the past, Gephardt and company must accept the potential gain of engaging in cautious cooperation with...