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The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.
Pakistan is threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb in response to India's nuclear tests over the past week.
They planned to detonate the bomb on or around January 1, 2000.
The movie's chief pleasure is Mira Sorvino as a wise-ass passport forger who can detonate an insult with throaty, Bacall-like precision and then leap into gun battles with hell-for-leather abandon.
But even more of these bombs may detonate soon: President Clinton's budget allocates more funding to equal-pay enforcement, and Congress may soon expand the 1963 Act to allow for greater damages awards.