Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers gross-out comedy era.) Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland, but that's misleading; Wonderland was always either a) the product of Alice's dream b) a series of psychedelic hallucinations or c) an exercise in wordplay. Cameron Diaz' and John Cusack's tortuous journey inside the head of Mr. Malkovich is no Wonderland. This is for real...
...Nielsen's ratings. I, as always, was skeptical, but this was some seriously addictive television. Finally a game show that didn't reward you with a new dinette set or a cheesy trip to Las Palmas. This was a diabolically simple challenge (and a fair one at that)--a tortuous series of questions that required a cool blend of skill, strategy and luck. And best of all, we could play along at home. The downside? ABC only scheduled it as a two week filler. They'll bring it back for November sweeps, of course, but the other networks will throw...
...draft U.N. resolution setting out the Kosovo peace process was agreed to in negotiations among the G8 nations, but disagreements between Russia and the West resulted in a number of questions ?- such as the command and composition of the peacekeeping force -? being left open. Such issues, along with the tortuous negotiations over an implementation agreement, signal the conflicts to come. "Even as the deal is being implemented, Belgrade will refer to the letter of the resolution in order to challenge NATO?s interpretations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "For example, they?re claiming the right to screen...
Despite the tortuous turns in her career, Hadid says she's not bitter. At 48, she's still young for an architect. And she doesn't believe in glass ceilings. Unless, of course, she's thinking of designing...
This fast-paced account of a bitter racial discrimination case brought by a Harvard-trained black attorney successfully evokes the tortuous ambiguities that surround efforts to integrate the professional work force through affirmative action. But it never quite answers the hard question at the heart of the story: Was Lawrence D. Mungin, the "good black" of the title, a competent lawyer who got the shaft because he was black, or a disillusioned Uncle Tom who blamed racism when his ambitions exceeded his talent? Without knowing that, it's impossible to judge the validity of Mungin's case...