Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Italian director Pietro Germi in his brilliant '60s comedies Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. But what played in Sicily for Germi doesn't work in Tacoma, Wash., for Lawrence Kasdan. This crime does not spring from the polluted mores of a medieval society; it is the private whim of an exasperated woman. I Love You to Death lacks the precision, ferocity and guts needed for black farce. It has the American failing: it just wants to be loved...
...modest increase in the number of directly elected legislators after 1997. As it was, only 18 out of 60 seats were to be filled by open ballot. Since Tiananmen Square, however, Hong Kong's top priority has been to increase that allotment as a hedge against rule by Communist whim...