Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning to refer to itself, not as a brigade but, again, as a cun, a village. The brigade chief, a bald-headed veteran Communist, explained once more that peasants could now decide on their own crops and routines. "Responsibility" made them care about the harvest. Then, as an afterthought, he added, "It is not only the attention of the farmer that helps. He now uses his own organic material, also the organic material of the chickens and buffaloes to enrich his fields." I read very precisely what he meant. Now that a peasant is responsible for the land allotted...
Jones began running track almost as an afterthought. When he didn't make the varsity tennis squad his last spring at Northfield-Mount Hermon prep school, the Kansas City. Kansas native decided to follow in the footsteps of his brother Herman, a Mount Hermon track star, and give running a try. As was to be the case throughout his track career, he was an immediate success, winning the New England prep school association 100-and 200-meter championships...
...book for little tiny children," she says bristling up as if the film makers had attacked one of her own off spring. "He made Meg 10 years old. 10! what happens to her relationship with Calvin at age 10. I'd like to know?" Almost as an afterthought she add. "In a white heat of outrage I dashed of 25 pages of film treatment." After some political reshuffles, she is now shuttling back and forth to Hollywood to finish...
...compresses a great deal of melodramatic incident into a short span of time, and it is hard to escape the feeling that there is more here than any real adolescent may ever have to deal with. But that is an afterthought. While the picture is running, its casual naturalism, its refusal to force any single incident to its dramatic or comic limits, its accuracy of tone, texture and pitch keep one persuaded and involved. For a studio that has been trying to regain its grip on contemporary reality, for audiences that must by this time be jaded by the noisy...
...Arab nations holding a summit last week in Fez, Morocco. To the proud and stubborn Israeli leader, whose cooperation in any Middle East peace process would be essential, the whole idea of the plan was anathema. "It no longer exists," Begin said sharply. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: "The friendship between Israel and the U.S. still exists...