Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all this data, 19th century scholars began trying to decipher the hieroglyphic script, reconstruct Maya history and figure out what caused the civilization to fall apart. In the absence of any historical context, though, speculation tended to run a little wild. Some ascribed the monumental buildings to survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis; others insisted they were the work of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, or the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Chinese, or even the Javanese...
...movie has a summer-fun romantic-comedy script that just doesn't work. Why? The only humor is generated by Mike Meyers and he doesn't have Dana Carvey to save him. And Meyers' humor, while engaging, is completely separate from the movie itself, which leaves the film fractured and depressing...
...movie has a summer-fun romantic comedy script that just doesn't work...
...complete script. I don't know if I would have [dared to] try to do that," he said...
...summit has an important script -- coordinating economic policies, stabilizing Russia and rescuing free trade -- but the actors seem far from up to their roles. Says foreign policy analyst Michael Mandelbaum, a friend of President Clinton's who turned down a high U.S. State Department post in January: "What we have in Tokyo is a meeting of the world's strongest countries but the world's weakest leaders." It is, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, "the summit of the politically unpopular...