Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton is worrying his aides more than ever with his verbose and minutiae-encrusted public statements. Advisers fret that in trying to appear smart, especially on matters of foreign policy, Clinton looks mired in niggling particulars. During one long-winded presidential response at a press conference, George Stephanopoulos grabbed...
Director Petersen notes that a few years ago, Line of Fire screenwriter Jeff Maguire did the unthinkable: he wouldn't let the film be made with Tom Cruise in the lead role because it would mean jettisoning the "backstory" about a Secret Service agent old enough to have served President...
The narrator, a jaded Greenwich Village type, tells two related stories: the first a recollection of a filming in Colombia, and the second a recollection of the first deaths back in Germany. Though the first narrative (of the filming in Colombia in 1984) sets the background and fills in the...
During the 1980s, the Whitney was content to take dictation from dealers and collectors, so that its Biennials tended passively to reflect the fashions of the art market without showing more than an occasional glimmer of independent judgment. The 1993 version is different and scaled to a chastened art world...
The laughs, and there are plenty, come mostly from Scott's trademark vocabulary of gestures for impatience -- the wide-eyed glare, the bellow, the thundering crash of his heel for emphasis as he tells the long-winded young woman, "Short! Short!" About two hours shorter would have been best for...