Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McNamara sat on a panel with James G. Blight, professor of international relations and director of the Vietnam War Project at Brown University and Robert K. Brigham, an associate professor of history at Vassar College. The three discussed the book they recently co-wrote, Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy...
This was also expected to incite argument, but the legislation did not even gain enough votes for consideration, let alone debate...
...eyes of even his most severe critics, Ken Starr finally got one right. At a Senate hearing last week, the independent counsel whom the White House accused of being politically motivated made the argument that the statute that created him should die. His reasoning: you just can't take politics out of the process...
...that live action should consort with puppeteering (Yoda is still voiced and manipulated by Frank Oz) and digital auteurism. So, yes, there must be real actors. It takes a real actor to stand on a bare stage and pretend it's the gigantic Galactic Senate, or to have an argument with an invisible junkman. And it takes a trusting actor to endure the secrecy attending a Star Wars production...
...advice and, I hoped, a convincing argument to back out of this arrangement, I called George Plimpton, who spent a season training as a goalie with the Boston Bruins for his 1985 book, Open Net. "Hockey players are the greatest cats on earth," he said Plimptonly. He then recounted his own experiences and lacerations. "I envy you," he said. "You'll have a lot of fun. Maybe you won't have so much fun. I don't know...