Word: afterthought
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With revivals, the text is virtually an afterthought save as a star vehicle. Says producer Charles Duggan of Private Lives: "There are two ways to compete for audiences against films and videotapes. One is with spectacle, and the other is with star power." Even so, Duggan concedes, there can be too much of a good thing. He booked Collins at a time when he expected to be offering audiences a unique touch of glamour. But a jumble of long-discussed projects from various producers all came to pass at about the same time, and suddenly rival stars were everywhere...
...citing only as an afterthought the obvious fact that I am acting independently of CLUH, Cloud engaged in poor journalism at best, and intentional misrepresentation at worst...
Though those events now seem like relics of a long-distant past, they all occurred in the past two years. Since last summer, however, the war on drugs has become almost an afterthought. Part of the reason is simply that public concern has been diverted by the Persian Gulf crisis and fears of a recession. But there is another sign of the issue's decline: though he sounded a call to arms soon after taking office, the President too has turned his attention elsewhere...
...faces just pity or condescension. Although most social scientists have rejected the view that homosexuality is far less common among women than men, the idea persists in the public at large. When homosexuals are discussed in the media, men are almost always the focus, with women at best an afterthought. The very word gay has come to imply male, and AIDS has ironically exacerbated that distortion, even as it helped propel women to the forefront of gay leadership because so many of the male leaders were sick or dying...
Central Square has long been something of an afterthought in the city of Cambridge, a rough grey area untouched by the prosperity that two thriving universities have brought to neighboring Harvard and Kendall Squares...