Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President can negotiate a compromise with Republicans on a plan to reform the IRS in the next few weeks, political commercials like the one Luntz dreams of will be saturating the airwaves come next year's midterm congressional elections. It's a prospect that scares Democrats all over town. Except, that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that his department relinquish...
...sensitive direction allows the film both to indict and to forgive these characters at the same time. The presence of sin is unmistakable--even the name of the town, New Canaan, has Biblical implications--but no one really bears the blame. Many of the characters' actions seem harmless enough until they're in too deep to turn around. Ben and Janey's affair is so casual and matter-of-fact that it's easy to forget the pain they are causing others, and even themselves...
This tale of a small-town high school teacher (Kevin Kline) whose life is turned upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-star (Matt Dillon) constitutes Hollywood's own coming-out comedy about homosexuality. It's therefore an appropriately bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and doesn't get enough out of a cast which includes Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, and Bob Newhart. However, Kline still manages to rise above the plodding humor, especially in his show-stopping dance scenes; and Selleck is terrifically funny as the sleazy, sardonic...
Marshall grew up in a small town called Newcastle in Natal, South Africa. She attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, graduating in 1966. She became the president of the National Union of South African Students, and a fervent advocate of majority rule. However, she insisted that at that time she had no idea that she would become a lawyer, much less a judge...
...while I'm not new to alcohol, as the night develops I start to get a certain thrill from bringing my editorial responsibilities out for a night on the town. In fact, I eventually realize that contrary to all the rhetoric, the drinks have actually made me a better reporter. And I've got three pages of illegible and incoherent notes to prove...