Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats convene in Chicago within a few blocks of some of the nation's most downtrodden neighborhoods, Clinton and his Administration reek of tin-plated noblesse oblige. When he signed the new law last week, the President boasted that it would help the poor rediscover the value of "work and family and independence." But the new system he brags so piously about provides few realistic ways for the poor to uplift themselves beyond insisting that they tug at their bootstraps. Clinton argues that those who still believe that the Federal Government has a duty to try to eradicate poverty should...
...blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight was a Tin Pan Alley tune that had been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part of a thrilling emotional biography, drawing out a note until it was exhausted, then punctuating it with a catch in her throat that sounded...
...terrible moments toward the end of Tin Cup it seems possible that Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner), the driving-range pro from Salome, Texas, may actually win the U.S. Open. Oh, no, the quailing spirit wails, not another Rocky clone, not another inspirational fable to feed false dreams of glory among the little guys...
...comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness. As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond a doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make Tin Cup rattle very merrily...
...irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make 'Tin Cup' rattle very merrily...