Word: barnyard
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Committee will produce a 209-page report pillorying the Clinton administration for its handling of Russia. The main target? Al Gore, who gets two chapters all to himself - one concerning the bilateral commission he chaired with former Russian prime minister and Gazprom magnate Viktor Chernomyrdin, the other on the "barnyard epithet" Gore reportedly scrawled across a CIA report alleging Chernomyrdin's corrupt activities. These are part of a broader pattern of administration errors that have brought warm U.S.-Russian relations in 1992 to a frosty atmosphere now, the report alleges...
...worst fears about the candidate: that he was old, had old policies and was running a faltering campaign. The same might be said here too for Bush. The ad makes him look underhanded and excessively juvenile in a frat-boy kind of way. Coming after last week's barnyard epithet, it makes the "change the tone, bring honor and dignity" crusade look a little thin...
...Ford in What Lies Beneath, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Mel Gibson in The Patriot and Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The other winners connected with audiences' fondness for old franchises (the James Bond The World Is Not Enough), twisted family dramas (American Beauty, Double Jeopardy), barnyard critters (Stuart Little, Chicken Run) and black comics dolled up as fat women (Big Momma's House). Moreover, the films without top names usually cost a lot less to make, so the back end was bigger--and not just Big Momma...
...that some wines smell as appealing as a barnyard? Is there nothing to be done...
...misfortunes accorded the runt of the litter are not, it seems, confined to the barnyard...