Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie simply needed my clout to get it made," Spielberg says, and he is not being immodest. Since no filmmaker has a track record like his, none has his power to encourage both a studio and the young mass audience to take a risk on a movie the subject of which is inherently repellent, not to say terrifying...
...emotional effect. There is a kind of morality -- a respect for one's tools and materials and for the intelligence of the beholder's eye -- in the craftsmanship he has deployed. It serves the interests of the tale, not the ego of the teller. In the annals of Hollywood "clout," this is almost as astonishing as the movie itself...
Even when they do pay for stories, tabloid producers insist, the practice is used carefully and does not compromise credibility. Inside Edition anchor Bill O'Reilly argues that paying for interviews is a legitimate way of competing with the networks, whose offer of prime-time national exposure carries more clout. "To level the playing field, we have to offer incentives to some people to come on our air." Some journalistic watchdogs agree that the traditional stigma against pay-for-play reporting may be breaking down -- and for good reason. "It's hard to argue that the ordinary person shouldn...
...Cardinal wields immense clout in the hierarchy -- beginning at the top. The Pope and Ratzinger are, says one mid-ranking Vatican official, "two pieces of a puzzle. Without one, the other is not complete." Others point out an obvious primacy. Asked whether the Cardinal in practice was the undisputed No. 2 under the Pontiff, one insider in the Holy See responds, "Intellectually and theologically...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger wields enormous clout...