Word: vickie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is not as easy as it sounds. The lead lounge lizard, toothpaste heir Charley Pearl (Baldwin), is engaged and attending a Las Vegas bachelor party when he falls into obsession with nightclub singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger). She, in turn, is the mistress of the Strip's founding mobster, Bugsy Siegel. In other words, these are not people with whom one feels an immediate natural identification. Nor is their problem -- a stormy relationship that requires them to marry and separate four times -- one for which most people are likely to have an affinity...
About all that can be said for Charley is that his reluctance to marry a spoiled-rotten fiance (Elisabeth Shue) and take on a classically choleric movie mogul (Robert Loggia) in the bargain is understandable. About all that can be said about Vicki is that she is pretty and sings sexily...
...things about the [Center for Science and International Affairs] faculty is that they really think that the science and technology matters," says Vicki L. Norberg-Bohm, a doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School. "You can't treat them like black boxes...
...personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores." And Justice White, once a basketball regular in the courthouse gym, holds reunions with his former clerks at which he still offers them a tough game, shooting baskets in "the highest court of the land...
...Frank Pope, whose family was so close to William Jenner that he grew up calling him Uncle Bill. In the budget agency was Judy Palmer, who was the personal assistant to Edgar Whitcomb's wife during Whitcomb's 1968 campaign for Governor; in the prosecutor's office was Vicki Ursalkis. All these people were students at the night school, only a few blocks from the statehouse, but they saw more of each other during their daytime tasks, in the balconies ringing the rotunda, than in the school, even though Quayle, Pope, Ursalkis and Palmer made up a study group...