Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a year after the Cambridge City Council rejected proposals to link future building with support for low- and moderate-income housing, the city is still considering the concept...
...easy. Mikhail Baryshnikov's latest undertaking is a movie called A Time to Dance, which is currently filming in Bari, Italy. The idea started when Baryshnikov went to Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) and proposed that they film the 19th century ballet Giselle together. Ross suggested expanding the concept to include a film-within-a-film plot about the world's greatest male dancer and the love affairs he has while filming a performance of Giselle. Baryshnikov did not find that hard to play. And when they brought the proposal to Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, it took...
...Most kids have no concept of what they're supposed to do," Curry said. He said that the book is for students "intimidated into writing some clicheed story about being yearbook editor or student council president." He said that the most unusual essays are the most outstanding to an admissions officer...
Consummate merchandisers, the Ghermezians were looking for ways to lure retail shoppers in a thinly populated region where the winters are long and temperatures often dip to -40 degreesF. Much of their concept is blatantly borrowed from Disneyland -- right down to the name of their amusement park, which they have dubbed Fantasyland. (Walt Disney Productions is suing over use of that name.) But the Ghermezians view the delights of their pleasure dome unsentimentally. "We do not make money on the entertainment," says Eskandar, fortyish, one of the less secretive of the brothers. "We make money on the retail sales...
...relations with the U.S. The Reagan Administration still holds on to the concept that South Africa is an ally. We would like to see the U.S. break that alliance and take a firm position on the side of the victims, not only in South Africa but in this whole region. The U.S. has its own history, its own experience, which is similar to what we are experiencing in South Africa. The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system...