Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love the one-on-one interview, the tte--tte over coffee or lunch where you can really get inside somebody's head. Perhaps that was too much to ask from the makers of Being John Malkovich, after the film has already taken you quite literally into the head of Mr. Malkovich himself. Instead, I had to content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many...
...this library come with some major strings attached. Take, for instance, the stipulations that "not a brick, stone, or piece of mortar [could] be changed" on the completed building, and that no structures could be erected in the light courts at the center of the building. How, you ask, has the crafty Harvard administration managed to side step these restrictions. A library communications officer, allows that both of these provisions are being broken--but with "the blessing of the Widener family...
...true! I went up to him and said, 'I know it's none of my business, but I've known you since kindergarten, and I've been hearing these rumors, and I just wanted to ask you if they're true...
Dunn and President Neil L. Rudenstine appeared jointly earlier this month to ask for a grant from a foundation, the first joint solicitation by a Harvard president and a Radcliffe leader ever...
...ask them to strike another would be to urge dishonesty. It's not that the un-earnest don't think passion is good, it's just that they don't have any. What Purdy asks is that they take up responsibilities they may well see the necessity of but have no enthusiasm for. What you're asking is that they believe in something they don't find wholly believable, believe in it because the belief itself if not its object would be good. Fair enough. Only leave them the irony they'll need to accept their fate as conscript crusaders...