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...Arabs as crazed religious zealots and bombers. The Siege has many shortfalls, including two-dimensional characters. The Siege has its thrills and suspenses, and its big name cast shouldn't fail to lure the crowds, but don't expect much more than a typical action flick with the twist of modern day relevance. Keith D. DesRochers

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...have been compressed into several burglar alarm salespeople bent on income redistribution. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles will realize the timeliness of their "rob the rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhoods of potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. A natural at the hook, the Tommy's moral sensibilities are deeply troubled by Grigoris' less-than-honest sales strategy, which he markets to Tommy under the "rob the rich to feed the poor...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE ALARMIST | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...country represented by something other than a walking corpse," sighed a Foreign Ministry official. And as if to emphasize the quiet shift of power from Yeltsin to Primakov, press coverage of the Prime Minister's farewell visit to Yeltsin before leaving for Vienna included a new twist. Ministers usually swing by the Kremlin to receive "instructions" before a state visit. Primakov dropped by Yeltsin's sanatorium to hear a few "suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's New Icon | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...final twist: Moraine employees will be hired under a new, three-tiered wage scale, with workers starting at about $9 an hour. Once upon a time, the starting wage for such jobs was in the double digits. Nonetheless, Mayor Roger Matheny said that "this offers us job security and lets us know GM is going to be here for a long while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...NAME] Tony Twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 9, 1998 | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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