Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...wonder if today's audience, out for summer fun, will appreciate all this. The movie, though it is never less than surprising in its willingness to confront human ugliness and sometimes more than inspiring in its embrace of our better natures, is long--almost three hours. And some people won't be able to dig out the poignant reality beneath what looks superficially like rather old-fashioned spectacle...
...Beat Bobby Flay" chant was, at one point, led by eight-year-old Tommy Mothershead, who had traveled from Arizona to see his hero, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, do battle. Mothershead was dressed in a homemade facsimile of Morimoto's silver robe and hat that looked either more or less ridiculous on him, depending on how long you thought about...
...major political parties will raise more than $1 billion for this fall's election [NATION, June 5]. That is another telltale sign of our nation's frivolous attitude toward money. And unfortunately, all this cash will be spent only on the elections! The better things get, the less interested we are in the most serious areas of governing. The more money we have, the more public indifference there is to those who are hurting the most. And the beat goes on. (THE REV.) MARK FRANCESCHINI Hillside...
...feet firmly in the heartland, Daley didn't fit the bill. But Daley looked enough like America to be asked to salvage NAFTA in 1993, when the Administration was headed for an embarrassing defeat. The job was a killer. It lacked Cabinet status, had no staff and had less than a third of the Democrats in support. He jumped right in. Former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor remembers that even before Daley had a desk, he was placing calls from a bench in Lafayette Park, across from the Oval Office. He relied on the arm-twisting and schmoozing skills implanted...
...total disaster either. Jackson is as fast with a contemptuous quip as he is with his fists; and if he is not quite the cool sexual outlaw that his predecessor was, that's all right too, since "blaxploitation" was never more than a passing fad--a more or less genial way of asserting black studdishness while giving white liberals the jimjams...