Word: destruction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desire to dissuade potential suicides from believing they would be celebrated in death. Today, of course, we realize that there exist' legitimate reasons why an individual might wish to terminate his or her life; we also know that mental illness sometimes induces a person to self-destruct. So, for the most part, we afford the same respects to suicides as we do to anyone else who has died. We do so even realizing that we are in some respect rewarding them for devastating the lives of loved ones and providing an example to others that says, "All you need...
...script, by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman, settles for the stale pose of antiheroic dialogue and TV sitcom irony. Barbara Ling's sumptuous production design is mainly a reminder of better, quirkier films (Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy). The special-effects aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward momentum, Batman Forever drags laboriously, as if the Batmobile were being towed away with the emergency brake still on. The picture leaves thick black skid marks...
...prove she abused her post. Hawthorne says Mrs. Mandela, convicted of kidnapping in 1991, has become a national embarrassment. He notes that since 1993, the president has spoken "hardly a word" to his wife, who also stands accused of abusing ANC funds, and appears to be in a "self-destruct mode...
...WISHFUL MOMENTS, EVEN BILL Clinton is tempted to think that the Republican mandate will self-destruct and allow him to keep pushing his old agenda. But reality intruded last week, when the President was reminded that he will not be so lucky as to face only the flat-earth Helmsians of the G.O.P., but also must contend with centrist hard bargainers like Senate Republican leader Bob Dole. When the Senate Republican leader wanted to make Administration officials jump, he merely had to fire off a few faxes. Sent while the President was vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom...
Will the G.O.P. self-destruct? The Democrats dream...