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...never met, but said Barnes called him once or twice a year. Then, on Aug. 5, Perot's security guards caught Barnes in the billionaire's Dallas headquarters after hours. According to Perot, Barnes said the Republicans had hired him to wiretap the Texan's computers and ruin Perot financially so he could not run again. "Maybe it doesn't make sense," Perot said when asked why he had not made these charges public until now. "But that...
...Buddy, although he makes him so instantly recognizable in his Nipsey Russell loungewear and pinkie ring, in his scathing put-downs and maudlin sentimentality, that the character seems to come from the inside out. Crystal says he only wanted to show "the terrorist inside each of us, who can ruin things at any moment." But like many people for whom affection comes easily, Crystal may have felt driven to test his positives. "It was easy to like Harry ((in When Harry Met Sally . . .)) and Mitch ((the mid-life ad guy in City Slickers)), but not Buddy. I wanted to elicit...
...grand manner, whose defining masters were Michelangelo and Raphael. Their works, he said, "demand to be studied and meditated over many times. For though we now paint following a different course and method, if it is not established upon this kind of study, ((our)) painting may easily end in ruin." This is why Michelangelesque poses often recur in Ribera's early work, such as the half- ruined, still impressive Crucifixion, circa 1625, whose twisting Christ is based directly on a famous Michelangelo drawing...
...couldn't do the job half-assed because it would ruin the power of the film. According to Damon, "the work comes first." Unfortunately, he says, "I was working in a negative atmosphere," generated by the attitudes the actors needed to take to produce the onscreen energy...
...high wages, and fear they are falling behind employees in the fast-growing private economy. They have struck for wage increases that, in the opinion of Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity who is now President of Poland, could be met only by "printing money." That, says Walesa, would "ruin all our achievements so far." Suchocka's government has resorted to the hard-boiled capitalist expedient of threatening to fire strikers at an auto-parts plant and a coal mine. The threat helped end those strikes, but future relations between labor and management are still problematic...