Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progress in the effects trade. Similarly enhanced "special editions" of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi will blow into theaters sequentially over the next few weeks, freed for the first time in more than a decade from the cinematic coffin of home video. Besides helping to wring a few more dollars out of the old movies, the refurbishment has also served as pre-preproduction for a new Star Wars movie that is scheduled to start shooting this fall for a 1999 release, the first of the long-awaited trilogy of prequels to the extant films...
...Washington the Clinton Administration could do little more than talk softly and wring its hands. It has little leverage with Netanyahu. The relationship between an Israeli Prime Minister and a U.S. President is always crucial--and that between Clinton and Netanyahu is merely cordial. The warm affection between Bill Clinton and the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will never be replicated with Netanyahu. "What you've got here is two individuals who are wary of individuals like themselves," says one White House official. "Ultimately it's a matter of shared motives--that's the mark of deep common chemistry...
...officially opened, the city was paving over the doubts and wiring up the excitement. Oh, traffic was often a mess, and the sidewalks became a flea market, but Atlanta seemed genuinely happy and gracious about welcoming the world. The City Too Busy to Hate was also too busy to wring its hands over the horrific tragedy of TWA Flight 800. The security presence was so large to begin with, some 30,000 strong, that added measures were hardly noticed. The safety concern manifested itself mainly as an added line of questioning at press conferences. Worries about the heat were diminished...
...place from which many of us unwittingly withdrew years ago. Now Big Business waits quietly in a dark cloak carrying a scythe. It stalks the very elements that made it profitable and yielded it market share--its people who have labored so hard. The parvenues of "new management" will wring out every last drop of dedication from the drones in the name of profit. But as Keillor noted, there is an appealing green world, and no one is permanently marooned. TERESA HOMMEL Boise, Idaho...
...what I really want to ask Leary is this: Do you hanker to wring your wife's treacherous neck? Finally, after three-quarters of the visiting hour has passed, the prisoner is escorted in. After devoting most of our talk to Spit, I finally get up the gumption to ask my question. "By the way, Tim, I don't mean to pry, but ... what's happening with your new, you know, since you last...