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...smartly said, "The reason I want to film the novel is that it's about honor, and that's the thing very good movies are about." That speech, and $1.5 million, put him over. Universal later reimbursed him for the rights (plus an almost equal amount tied to various bonus incentives) and also spent a reported $5 million to get him to direct and produce the film. Then Nichols...
...that the mass market, two-dimensional conception of beauty is not the basis on which men judge the three-dimensional women in their lives. If Miss February were a brilliant philosophy student whose personality was completely compatible with mine, I might consider her appearance to be a bonus in her favor. Of course, my girlfriend would probably consider it a bonus in my favor if I were an heir to an oil fortune. But she's not making an appointment to get breast implants and I'm not frantically sinking wells in the backwaters of Texas. Idealizations are a fiction...
With the attention back on the President, the scandal has granted the Democrats a double bonus. First, they avoid the embarrassing, public soul-searching Gephardt was pushing, Second, they may even be helped by Clinton's remarkable approval ratings. Republicans, on the other hand, face the unpleasant possibility of considering the impeachment of a popular President based on the recommendations of an unpopular Independent Counsel for charges many consider superfluous...
...finally forced to send a New World expeditionary force to rescue the Old. Even then American opinion was not fully convinced it was necessary to fight Kaiser Bill. When the victorious doughboys sailed home, they were almost ignored, and when they marched to Washington to demand a promised veterans' bonus, the U.S. Army drove them out of town...
...mistakes Coss continues to pay a hefty price in the form of bonus givebacks and the drop in the value of his shares. And he is unlikely ever to regain his crown as America's top-paid executive, because Green Tree has changed its compensation formula to make it less generous. Despite the recent turmoil, though, Coss will take home a pay package worth about $4 million for his work last year...