Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After an uncertain start, director Norman Rene (a valued collaborator on all of Lucas' projects) finds a sure, subtle rhythm that honors both the script's delicacy and the boisterous demands of a date-night movie audience. Baldwin, who breathed this role so naturally in the play's off-Broadway stint that no one else needed apply for the movie version, is a terrific guide through Peter's decent bafflement. Ryan, new to the part, must work hard to get under Rita's skin, which she does beautifully at about the time someone else invades it. And Walker, a stage...
...important as the uncertain future of Perotsupporters is the American economy, a factorequally out of Clinton's control. Bush'spopularity is inextricably tied to the financialsituation of the average family...
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After that calamity, the Rio conference turned out to be comparatively free of controversy. For weeks Bush had acted more like a latter-day James Watt than "the environmental President," at first uncertain about attending the conference and then blocking a variety of proposals from major allies, developing countries and even William Reilly, his own Environmental Protection Agency director, that were designed to improve the environment into the 21st century. Bush seemed to be caught between two constituencies he holds dear -- on one side conservatives and business leaders who oppose spending on the environment, and on the other conservationists whose...
What A.R. Gurney is for the old money set, Richard Greenberg is for yuppie arrivistes: a rueful chronicler of meaningless manners, misbegotten mores and loves gone wrong. THE EXTRA MAN, off-Broadway, focuses on a figure common to both circles: the unattached man of uncertain sexuality and undeniable charm who is always on hand for friends and in fact lives through them, sometimes in ways meddlesome or even Machiavellian. Boyd Gaines, who won a Tony Award as a saintly gay doctor in The Heidi Chronicles, balances amiability and creepiness in the role. He is ably backed by TV stars Adam...