Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deputy Prime Minister asked, "How's our friend Bill doing?" Most of the hour-long session was spent discussing Clinton's re-election prospects. Dresner had prepared a five-page proposal that called for the Americans to "introduce your campaign staff to sophisticated methods of message development, polling, voter contact and campaign organization...
...better reception than they received after the Riyadh bombing. The U.S. always seeks to participate in investigations of incidents in which Americans are killed, and they did so last November. Officials in Washington say the Saudis accepted FBI help until four young suspects were caught, and then cut off contact. The American experts wanted to join in the interrogation of the suspects to learn about their organization, contacts, backers and bosses. The Saudis refused, U.S. officials say, and did not inform the FBI before the four were publicly beheaded last May 31. Intelligence experts think that either the Saudis...
...Attacks! (a gleefully nihilistic vaudeville that promises to play Dr. Strangelove to ID4's relatively docudramatic Fail-Safe) and the inevitable sequels and remakes of Alien, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lost in Space, you'll see big-budget versions of thoughtful sci-fi novels: Carl Sagan's Contact (directed by Robert Zemeckis), Michael Crichton's Sphere (Barry Levinson) and Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven...
Emmerich made his early films in Germany--and in English, for the world market. In 1989, after a clever Spielberg-rip-off kids' fantasy (Making Contact) and a comedy about moviemaking (Ghost Chase), he directed Moon 44, an outer-space Dirty Dozen with a story line that would recur in ID4: for a desperate space battle, a former combat pilot must assemble a ragtag band of flyers, including a loser with heroically suicidal tendencies. Devlin played the computer-nerdy male ingenue; after Moon 44, he and the director became filmmaking partners...
...name is Rudd Coffey, it's in all the phone books, they can finger me...and also call Harvard information," he said. "All this about not getting in contact, I think that's a crock of shit...