Word: trap
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...choose for something like this." Actually, he was at the top of the wish lists of director Nancy Meyers and Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing. Meyers (who penned the 1991 "Father of the Bride" update and its sequel) had directed only one picture, the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap," but Gibson watched it and signed on. "I wouldn't naturally go see something like that," he says, "but I enjoyed...
...Bush communications director Karen Hughes was out within the hour with a typically clenched-teeth response about deadlines passed and recounts undergone (and got caught in a nasty semantic trap about why they weren't calling Bush "president-elect" yet), though she needn't have bothered - the Bush lawyers in question had already prepared us for their rejection Tuesday morning. Barry Richard, Bush's version of David Boies, explained that Gore was dragging them into this contest at a very late date, having already gotten the Florida Supremes to delay certification by 11 days. And they certainly weren't going...
...fashion. He may invariably choose the messy route, but he's always aiming for the right, truthful place, and Ruffalo's performance is a wonderful blend of the winning and the exasperating. Linney matches him step for wrangling step as a woman too smart and too pretty for the trap she has chosen, someone who will, we guess, never escape her dutiful, churchgoing life--except for those moments when her inner wildness spills...
...Kyoto treaty is based upon the assumption that the carbon gases created by the burning of fossil fuels significantly contribute to global warming through the "greenhouse effect" - a layer of vapor and gases that trap the sun's heat in our atmosphere. And that assumption is based on solid science, according to the consensus among mainstream scientists, notwithstanding the protestations of Governor Bush, the petrochemical industry and a minority of scientists...
...complete and absolute parity (some would call it mediocrity) in the ECAC, because as soon as clear castes appeared, they got knocked down to size. Dietrich is now toiling in the New York Rangers system. Gustafson is now experiencing the joy of netminding for Jacques Lemaire's neutral zone trap in Minnesota. St. Lawrence still has enough talent to be near the top of the table, but that claim can be made for almost anyone in the conference...