Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This means that top actors are even busier than usual. Tom Cruise will motor directly from Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla Sky" to Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report." John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts - all are piggybacking big projects. Director Steven Soderbergh has fiddled with the shooting schedule for his remake of "Ocean's Eleven" to accommodate Roberts after she finishes shooting "America's Sweethearts." "I was happy to do make the adjustment," says Soderbergh. "She's doing me an enormous favor...
...blue coveralls in manholes; pedestrians with umbrellas, most dressed in plain clothes - women in skirts, men in Mao suits or just shirts, trousers and plain zip front jackets. Their attitude was subdued, perhaps downtrodden, but not uniformly so. On the street, a mixture of Chinese and Japanese cars, and even a few bright blue boxy Volvos puttered by. A lot of people were hanging around doing nothing...
...Later in the day, some journalists had even better luck avoiding the minders, slipping past them and out into the city unescorted. One side street with a few people milling around on it led to an open area in front of a school with play equipment and kids cavorting cheerfully. Inside an open door a long line of shabbily dressed people sat on small wooden chairs along one wall waiting for an audience with a bureaucrat behind a door...
...didn't happen. And the Harrells' problem is one that was voiced over and over in three days of interviews in a fast-growing, politically moderate area the Bush and Gore camps consider up for grabs and critical to their success. With a handful of exceptions, even voters who have decided on a candidate said they weren't thrilled with their choice. "Bush is the lesser of two evils," said Joe Spencer, 45, an electrical technician. Betty Ford, retired from the construction business at 52, felt the same way about Gore. "I just find him so - what's the word...
...Greenspan may even cut by a quarter point, which brings us to the flip side of the equation. What if the "soft landing" is a skidding halt? The markets, having just gotten hard evidence of the slowdown they've been waiting for, may find that next week is an excellent time for those doubts to start cropping up. What's ailing the markets these days is uncertainty - over oil prices, the Middle East, the election, you name it. After November, oil prices, with their power to cause not only stagnation but also inflation and political meddling, will likely...