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After flirting with a return to communism, party bosses retook power in 1992.
Both the WP and NYT leads state that the latest numbers mean the U.S. economy is flirting with record-setting prosperity, but the Times is clearer on this: it's now becoming likely that with January, the economy will see 107 consecutive months of growth, which would break the mark set between 1961 and 1969.
Now they are flirting with a new--or rather, an old--doctrine: nostalgism.
Bill Wyman asserted that Liz Phair is trying to maintain an indie sensibility while flirting with mainstream commercial music.
Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."