Word: concepting
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...Winters and Southern disciple "Mr. Mike" O'Donoghue, shortly before Southern died). Further exploration of his small but influential body of work in print and on film is necessary if only to discover his dazzling inventory of effects. Certain works are dispensable ("Telephone," "Randy," the wonderfully funny but "high concept" novel "Blue Movie"), others are sadly unavailable (the elegiac, touching novel "Texas Summer," the low-key experimental "End of the Road," and the grimly funny "The Loved One"), while the seminal works are waiting to be experienced (or re-discovered) at local stores or through Internet vendors...
...knows it probably can't stop. The question is, How ugly will this get? The Administration won an initial battle against European resistance in Munich last February, when it insisted it would go ahead no matter what. And it has pursued that advantage by furiously repackaging the missile-defense concept as a collaborative venture, inviting Russia and E.U. members to be founding partners. No one has agreed to come aboard, but the Administration is convinced European objections will evaporate if the U.S. can get Russia to do so. "The bottom line for [Europe...
...there is a positive side to the abuses, it is that they are emboldening the reformers against Arafat's men. Says Khader, the West Bank politico: "They're afraid of democracy. We've succeeded in developing the concept of democracy on the street." So far, at least, Arafat has been able to keep the popular will jammed into place by the pressures of the intifadeh and by his unchallenged leadership. But as they look around, Palestinians see a society that is more fractured than ever before and further away from the goal of a free state than at any other...
...test of that position will come in Russia's response, but Bush's approach appears to have worked with the Europeans. They're now resigned to the U.S. building it, and if at Wednesday's meeting with NATO leaders the key European players didn't exactly embrace Bush's concept, they at least began talking about the need for a new strategic framework to confront new threats...
...Global warming is not like missile defense, where the President was asking the Europeans to sign onto a very vague concept - the U.S. is saying there is a threat out there; it wants to spend all this money developing a system to counter that threat, and it simply wants the Europeans to accept this. But Kyoto is different: The details are already there, and we know exactly what would be expected from the Americans, and it would cost America a considerable chunk of money to comply. So Bush's position remains no Kyoto, and the Europeans insist on going ahead...