Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thumbs down, it's over," she said. For the first four months, the sales reports were "flat, flat, flat, flat." Then, magically, they took off; the Palm was a hit. Hollywood moguls started using it. Pilots began showing up on television (Murphy Brown) and in the movies (recent sighting: Wag the Dog). Within 18 months, more than a million were shipped, a faster launch than the first cellular phones and pagers enjoyed...
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...Wag the Dog is a wonderfully biting satire of the prevailing attitude which links show business to American politics. Two weeks before he is up for re-election, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout; mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during...
...bizarre coincidence of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and the crisis in Iraq as the movie Wag the Dog opened seemed to be the epitome of life imitating art. Yet most of us misread the imitation. The real Wag the Dog phenomenon in the Clinton scandal is not about using Saddam to distract from Monica. Rather, it is about using the increased attention on the President to distract from the crisis facing the Democratic Party. The problem facing the Democrats is not Clinton's extracurricular activities. It's the sad truth that their party just doesn...
...licensing. Even Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond got in on the act. But they found themselves outpaced by Barksdale, a great showman. "Gentlemen, that's a monopoly," said the Netscape chief after asking for a show of hands from audience members with Windows 95. "We're letting the tail wag the dog here," he added...