Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dustin, stammered through The Graduate the year Philip was born. By year's end the 32-year-old actor will appear not only in Flawless, but also in two of this Oscar season's most anticipated offerings: as a compassionate nurse in Anderson's Magnolia and as an expatriate blueblood in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley...
...flat-out comedies, movement means the rapid flapping of a wise mouth. Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids...
...damned ship, sink the damned ship. But in the 90 or so minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that...
...blueblood background may be a factor behind another popular Hosokawa trait: his outspokenness compared with the gray mass of Japanese politicians. At his first press conference in August, Hosokawa stunned his audience by declaring that for Japan, World War II was "a war of aggression, and it was a mistake" -- a statement previous leaders never made so bluntly, partly out of fear of stirring up nationalist constituents. Hosokawa dropped another bombshell at the same press conference when in response to a question he revealed that he would resign if his government didn't pass political-reform bills...
Being a non-politician has been helpful to many candidates, and William Weld, the pluperfect blueblood who won the Republican primary to oppose Silber in November, also played that card. His opponent, Steven Pierce, the house minority leader, matched Bellotti's shopworn look. The record turnout of Bay State voters demonstrated the public's tendency to turn on state officials with more wrath than it shows to members of Congress in troubled times. The culpability of federal lawmakers is more easily hidden. That explains why, in addition to Dukakis, nine other Governors are voluntarily retiring this year...