Word: vows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference room on the Universal lot, Steven Spielberg showed a couple of guests a printed card. On the card was "The Vow of Chastity"--Ten Commandments of simplified filmmaking, as proclaimed in the Dogme '95 manifesto by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Spielberg spoke enthusiastically about Dogme and said he'd like to make a film under its rules...
...over a year since we parted ways, we are all pleasantly immersed in our post-Weld worlds. The dynamic has never been quite restored, but it is always so great to see them. The other night we had a reunion dinner which was lots of fun, evoking vow upon vow to "do this more often." Will we? It's not like we haven't made that promise before. But here we are, at the start of a new year, a couple of weeks from the first big paper, and hope springs eternal. Maybe it's best to just let these...
...Freedom party?s strong showing will press the Social Democrats and the People?s party back into their coalition, despite the vow by People?s party leader Wolfgang Schuessel to go into opposition if he finished third. After all, it was only the failure of his squabbling opponents to reach a coalition deal that allowed another Austrian demagogue to win Germany?s 1933 election. And like Hitler, Haider combines an odd assortment of conservative and left-wing economics with a paranoid fear of foreigners, a put-upon sense that his country has been wronged and an exhortation...
...money) and neo-isolationists (for the principle) was dragged down by a third GOP faction that wanted to tack on anti-abortion provisions. While Clinton stands back and drawls about "sitting down and working this out" even as his promised vetoes loom, the GOP is stuck with a vow they can't be seen breaking and a tableful of work they can't seem to get done...
Much of the pressure to act comes from within Moscow's political class, with new prime minister Vladimir Putin making his vow to deal firmly with the rebels the centerpiece of his campaign for next year's presidential election. "The Kremlin is certainly using this crisis to paint the not-very-striking Putin to look like presidential material," says Quinn-Judge. The former KGB officer on Monday firmly rejected a call by Chechnya's President Aslan Maskhadov for political dialogue with Moscow, instead moving armor to the border. But despite their anger at the bombings, Russian voters may balk...