Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), spiritual mainstay of the White House and Ellie's romantic interest, she is selected as the transportee. After "wormholing" breathlessly through hyperspace, what she finds at the end of her journey is no little green men but a quasi-meta-physical Carl Saganish lesson (small wonder, since the movie was co-produced by the late Sagan and his widow, and is based on his novel...
...decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will get back on track." Some of that wondering showed in AT&T's closing stock price: down 1 5/16 to $35. What AT&T needs, says Kadlec, is a discernible plan. "They have to declare whether they're getting into the local services competition...
...typical character--the complicated man with a questionable past--was pretty much in a bad mood for the whole '50s. The Capra hero played by Stewart had been a figure of wild gestures; the Hitchcock hero was a man in moral traction, drawn to look at evil and wonder at its awful seductions. This was daring stuff. It took a bold man to twist and extend his star quality from sunny Jim into the darker shades of his mature roles. It took an extraordinary actor to achieve all this with such skill and courage, and not let the acting show...
...crackdown was the sort of thing that eventually led the mayor to get rid of the chief of police as well.) Following the crackdown, it was widely assumed that the squeegee guys, after a decent interval, would reappear. That hasn't happened. New Yorkers, grateful but intractably suspicious, wonder where the squeegee guys...
...wonder Bennett feels as if the case is moving his way. He has had to concede that Clinton may have met Jones (while holding on to the claim that Clinton doesn't remember her), but is now free to dissect her varying accounts of what happened in the suite. He should have no trouble exploiting the evidence that the troopers hoped to strike it rich and the picture of Jones as a lovesick puppy hoping to catch Clinton's eye. How will Jones counter that image? She and her handlers scheduled an interview with TIME last week, then canceled...