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It's a film that "ably gives the audience what it wants: hope, revenge, and gross-out jokes" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News ). (Check out preliminary models of the aliens at this site.)
Because she still adores him, and she wants to signal him about how he can protect himself when he testifies.
One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.
The spins from liberal senators and editorialists: 1) Republicans are turning their backs on the National Rifle Association because the public wants gun control.
Preoccupation with the scandal led a harried and nervous president to send his deputies into a sausage grinder, say Gloria Borger ( Face the Nation ) and Fred Barnes ( McLaughlin Group ). A reluctance to appear in public forums for fear of drawing Lewinsky questions compromises Clinton as commander in chief, says Gigot on Fox News Sunday --Clinton "can't compartmentalize these things the way he wants to."