Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend who had invited him there, inhaling twice from a pipe filled ; with crack cocaine and, finally, handcuffed and surrounded by police and FBI agents, muttering over and over, "Goddam, I shouldn't have come up here . . . that bitch set...
...population exodus has been reversed as office towers, whose occupancy levels plummeted as low as 10% in 1986, fill with firms springing up or relocating from other states. As Houston diversifies, it is shedding some of its rough-and-tumble past for an urbane glitter. Chic Italian restaurants now set the gastronomic tone, and croissant parlors near Rice University are crowded with research biologists from the nearby Texas Medical Center...
...daughter Nancy, who has lain in an irreversible coma ever since a car crash seven years ago, "the Cruzans would surely qualify." Despite all this sympathy, however, Rehnquist spoke last week for a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority in regretfully rejecting the Cruzans' plea to have their daughter "set free...
...anything more than paper over the deficit. U.S. negotiators said Bush's statement signaled that the Administration was serious about SII. "We are telling our Japanese colleagues it takes more political courage to raise revenues than to raise public spending," said an American. "It would be a very strange set of circumstances if the timing was purely coincidental...
...prime example is Thunder's emotional climax, in which Duvall shouts at his young charge, "You're scared, you're scared!" To which Cruise deftly retorts "You're scared, too!" Typical of the entire movie, Towne does not set up this, or any other of the films' emotional turns, with any believability. Cruise's breathtaking response is preceeded by a bewildering psychoanalysis of Duvall's character which would seem to require telepathy and clairvoyance to produce...