Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that coexists rather awkwardly with the modern story. Like most movies that wish mainly to warm our hearts, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is basically a lie. But it works. In part that's because all the actresses ground their archetypal characters in strongly realized reality, in part because the skittery script doesn't permit us to dwell on any of its improbabilities, and in part because director Jon Avnet energetically insists that the light of sheer good nature can always banish the essential blackness of his tale...
...before a single caucus or primary ballot has been cast anywhere, the national press and television have anointed Bill Clinton as the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Some pundits are speculating that he might even have the prize locked up in another eight or nine weeks. Their script: Clinton uses a victory or strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary Feb. 18 as a launching pad to wins in scattered primaries and caucuses from Arizona to Maine, and then storms the polls in 11 states, eight of them in his native South, that will vote...
...closer to Portnoy's Complaint than to the higher-class Peyton Place that Mike Nichols made of the movie. "I have spent more sleepless nights wondering how I might have saved that movie," Ephron says. Probably she lost it the minute her first-person voice was removed from the script...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are fond of affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure...
...Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- the answer may be cultural identity. As the 55 million inhabitants of the republics, most of them Muslims, consider a new written form of expression to replace the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, the choice has taken on geopolitical implications. Turkey, whose switch from Arabic to Latin script 64 years ago symbolized its shift toward Western-style democracy, wants the republics to follow its lead. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Iran are pressuring them to adopt Arabic script -- and, they hope, a Middle Eastern point of view. Some diplomats think the West won Round 1 last week, when Azerbaijan...