Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...reader knows not to raise a skeptical eyebrow when Arnold says something is going to happen. At the time, though, it was as hard to imagine him fitting into mainstream films as it would be to fit his wonderfully preposterous name on a movie marquee. Even after he scored a worldwide hit in his first starring role, as a primeval pillager in Conan the Barbarian, he was still seen as a fluke or a freak. Could this slab of sirloin beefcake act? It hardly mattered. He could fill the film frame superbly. He was also lucky. With the box-office...
...enough to think about the script and the director," he says. "I must ask, Who is the studio? What is the international program? How much money do they have to spend on promotion? I don't want to make a decision to work | hard at something, to believe in something 100% and then have an executive in there who doesn't believe in spending a lot of money. I've had that happen. Predator opened at $12 million, and Barry Diller ((who runs 20th Century Fox)) said, 'We don't want to support the second week of the movie...
...exuberantly. On previous albums, Farriss and Hutchence tended to write a given song in one particular style, but on X they've worked several styles into a single tune. The opening track, Suicide Blonde, starts off with a bluesy harmonica, then boots into a dance track that also rocks hard. By My Side has some suggestions of country, as well as overtones of a classic '40s-style saloon ballad. Says Farriss: "You've got to change musically...
...social problem in America looked so easy and proved so hard to solve. Having at last cleared away the myths about homelessness, communities across the country are moving to embrace the programs that work -- tailor made, cost effective, time tested. -- A collision in Detroit raises alarm about on-the- ground safety at airports...
...party and local leadership promptly condemned the racist slurs and rallied around Taylor. But having promised upon his election to build "a country that is at ease with itself," Major was reminded by the Cheltenham rebels just how hard that task is going...