Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divorce of Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson has hit a snag even before it hits the court. Alley sued for divorce in Maine; Stevenson countersued in California. The difference is that in the Golden State the richer partner typically has to share more of her wealth. Alley maintains that the two vote, register their cars and pay taxes in Maine (where they adopted their two kids). Stevenson says they've lived in California since the '70s. He's seeking spousal support and joint custody...
...there was a snag. Jimmy Carter had instituted an informal ban on U.S. manufacturers' selling sophisticated offensive weapons like F-16 and F/A-18 attack fighters to Latin America, because most military strongmen wanted the jets for flybys over the presidential palaces they occupied. Every American President since Carter supported the prohibition. If Lockheed Martin, which produces the F-16 Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas, which manufactures the F/A-18 Hornet, wanted in on the Latin American arms market, they had to change that policy...
...next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night away. And while Farrow was in Hanoi undoing an adoption snag, she went to a commissary and found Mother Teresa eating breakfast...
That hit comedy--which won Murphy the year's Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics and, in a just world, would snag him an Oscar nomination--was like a great date with an old lover fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime to please. Relocating his strength as a mimic, he played seven characters, all brilliantly. The one unattractive figure, Buddy Love, was a wicked stretch of the Eddie Murphy personality that moviegoers had tired of: sleek, preening, abrasive, an overdog in love with itself. The other characters were marvels not just...
Primogeniture must go. To paraphrase Bob Dole: Wake up, Republicans, and join the rush to meritocracy. To make room for younger, stronger candidates without dissing your elder statesmen, consider something like the Oscars' Irving Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Award. Snag some headline entertainer like Jay Leno sufficient to attract network coverage, and air the same hagiographic film that would otherwise be shown at the convention. Better that the candidate end his career in prime time, droning on about his second-grade teacher, than at sparsely attended airport rallies, shouting epithets into the wind...