Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of the institutional machinery to discourage brutality works without a clear message from the top that bad cops are bad news. New York's Giuliani may have sent out the wrong signal even before he was elected. While still a candidate, he addressed a wild demonstration of 10,000 out-of-uniform officers who assembled outside city hall to protest the decision by then Mayor David Dinkins to establish the city's civilian review board. After taking office, Giuliani was repeatedly accused of dragging his feet on hiring investigators for the board. Last year, when he tried...
...Hollywood's most frighteningly talented pug--Oliver Stone calls Penn "the ultimate anti-all- American Boy"--yet he relishes the role of father. "Family," he says, "makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive." The perennial wild child also plays disciplinarian to his and Wright's son and daughter. "Robin is there for the battles," he explains. "I come in during the war settlements. Then there's no negotiations; I'm basically the atom bomb...
Director Nick Cassavetes is less a full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure...
...Valley to set up a multicolor interactive Website, or gabbed about your new record with Regis and Kathie Lee, all the moaning about the trials and tribulations of fame comes across as disingenuous and disagreeable. In contrast, Oasis' buck-naked lust for success--its admitted love of money, its wild embrace of the actress-bedding, chain-smoking, hard-drinking, rock-'n'-roll life-style--almost comes off as a virtue...
...YORK: Will the market bounce back into steadily-rising mode after another frantic Friday? Most likely. Friday's wild ride-with the Dow giving up as much as 2 percent in value before recovering most of the lost ground-was a symptom of market jitters rather than a sign that the bull run is over. What's the Dow doing now? Check here...