Word: tina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could be a famous living woman, who would you be? I'd say Tina Turner because in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome she had this really cools crossbow thing. Hmm...no, the woman in the Timex commercial. This woman jumps out of an airplane (she's a hard-core skydiver). Her chutes don't open. She smashes into the ground form serious heights, does not die, just bruises her tailbone, and she's still jumping today. And then there's Sigourney Weaver in Alien. But I would say the Timex woman...
There are several reasons why the piece became combustible. For one, the New Yorker under editor Tina Brown has developed a knack for getting itself talked about, and this piece was placed up front in the issue, not back in the critical ghetto. For another, the article was well timed. Croce used it to deplore what she considers the politicization of National Endowment for the Arts grants and the effects of political correctness on the arts in general. To Croce, a conservative, a work of art should be judged by its realization of truth and beauty, not its adaptability...
...company was already proving its entertainment value by midwifing many a rumor. West Coast gossip: deposed Warner Bros. music kingpin Mo Ostin would work with Geffen. East Coast gossip: Tina Brown, the editor of the New Yorker, would be coming aboard. A spokeswoman who asked Brown about the rumor received the response...
There is obviously interest in the former classes' topic: turnout has been enormous at a beginning ASL course offered by Phillips Brooks House (PBH), according to Tina Kim '96, chair of PBH's committee on deaf awareness...
...Tina Majorino is the only actor who really shines in this movie, and it will be to her credit if the movie succeeds in the box office. As Molly Singer, she misses her mother desperately but finds a quick affection for Corrina, the only person who is able to bring her out of her self-imposed muteness. Majorino exudes the sadness, the confusion, the innocence and the joy of what it means to be a child. Majorino made her film debut opposite Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia in "When a Man Loves a Woman." This film proves that...