Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clichéd phoniness of shorthanding a woman's skill with bathroom pipes as an instant flag of lesbian sexuality. High Art, by contrast, scores aces for slinky atmosphere but overdoes the seriousness, offering a somber, compellingly seedy, but occasionally lethargic story where the sexual roundabouts that "shock" its various characters are rarely if ever shocking to us. By the time Lucy's saddled with a cartoonish Jewish mother, Cholodenko seems as starved for inspiration as Great and Lucy are demonstrated...
...much legislation is still in the making) and without private ownership of industry. Six months ago, the economy was said to have reached "the absolute rock bottom"--inflation was galloping at over 300 percent per month, interest rates were soaring, preceded by a bank run. All this coupled with various forms of crime (my parents' apartment was robbed the weekend before I came home) and a complete lack of confidence in the economy paints a sad picture of the country...
...that way too: a $55 X-Files CD-ROM game was just released, and, of course, the sound track is already out.) We're suckered by Carter's inanities--lapses of story and logic that you might expect from a guy who used to write about surfing. In the various Web chat rooms, we grandly contort ourselves to make it all make sense, to press hard continuity into the moist irregularities he offers up every week. His rare moments of generosity with information--one comes at the end of the sound track, when Carter outlines the origins of an interplanetary...
...White House had Brown murdered and then engineered a plane crash that killed 34 other people to cover up the murder? "We never used the word murder," he says carefully. He does charge, however, that colleagues at Judicial Watch have been "followed home by people [who are] probably with various government agencies...
...there are various ways to define independence. Taiwan and its governing Nationalist Party say they accept the principle of one China, but they also argue that China contains two governments and theirs has as much legitimacy as the one in Beijing. "No party governs all of China," says Chang King-yuh, chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. "China since 1949 has been divided into two political entities. The Republic of China was the first. We have never lost our sovereignty...