Word: aims
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Hollywood rules. Moviegoers in almost every foreign country prefer American films to their own. They love our action pictures, with their size and tempo and assurance, and all those pretty people realizing outrageous dreams. Our directors know how to fulfill Alfred Hitchcock's aim: to make the Japanese audience scream at the same time as the American audience. Perhaps they know it too well. A manic roteness now envelops action films; the need to thrill has become a drab addiction. Isn't there more to moviemaking than having your finger on the pulse of the world public...
Hunter Thompson launched himself at Parnassus much as he did at everything else, with guns blazing, a bulletproof heart and unflagging dead aim. Yet if the first dirty secret of the 350 or so youthful letters collected in The Proud Highway (Villard; 683 pages.; $29.95) is that the Unabomber of contemporary American letters was writing like a paranoid madman even in his teens, the second is that he was doing so because he was a well-read and ambitious man determined to claim his place in literary history. Meticulously keeping carbons of all his 20,000 letters, and taking himself...
Hence, the "approaches to knowledge" that became the Gen. Ed.'s heir as the lynchpin of a Harvard education in a post-vocational age continues. The aim remains teaching students not a skill so much as ways of "civilized" living and thinking...
According to the introduction to the Guide, its aim is "to help students make the most of their academic experience by granting them ready access to their peer's advice...
...happen to Microsoft and Intel, if only for the change of pace--such bluster hardly constitutes proof of illegal behavior. "I don't think there's any question that the suit is a negotiating ploy," says Mercury Research analyst Mike Feibus. The current industry wisdom is that Digital's aim is to gain an out-of-court settlement that would give it a foothold in Intel's fortunes--either a cross-licensing agreement granting access to Intel innovations for Digital products or a role in the development of Intel's new 64-bit chip, code-named Merced and expected...