Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month to make up the deficiencies before the FCC rules. Richard Notebaert, Ameritech's chomping-at-the-bit chairman and CEO, can't wait to grab part of the $9 billion long-distance market in the five states that his company has already wired up. "We have zero percent of that market now," Notebaert says, "and our infrastructure is completely in place...
Back then it took Hollywood a while to realize what kind of acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
...stars, of course, are Jones and Smith, who split the one-liners pretty evenly between them. Jones's deadpan is nicely offset by Smith's comical reaction to (and commentary on) every new experience. But this, too, gets old: their immunity to surprise gets to us. There's absolutely zero tenstion at any point, and the movie's non-stop flippancy brings it perilously clsoe to triviality...
...Clinton Administration officials predicted that a broad range of countries, including most of Africa, would do the same. (South Africa, which is floating its own proposal to sell stockpiled rhino horns, is likely to be a notable exception.) With such widespread opposition, the chance of resuming sales is almost zero...
...part because he was able to reflect the dark and roiling energies of young America. As early as 1964, he saw Ronald Reagan as "the prototype of the new mythological American...who will probably someday be President." One year earlier he noticed that Richard Nixon was indestructible, "a vengeful Zero with nine lives." Thompson, in fact, was that loneliest of creatures, an idealist without illusions, ready to kowtow to no one and as contemptuous of beatniks and hippies as of the "rotarians" they rebelled against. Surveying the 1960s like a clenched Kerouac, he lamented the death of John Kennedy...