Word: dicks
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...know people who hated Jack Valenti, or rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
More than once, Rhonda and Dick Archbold had talked about taking a vacation in space, hoping the opportunity would arise in their lifetimes. Unfortunately for Rhonda, it didn't: She died of a heart attack 17 months ago at her home in Stockton, California, at age 52. Having missed out on space travel in life, Rhonda's husband plans to offer her the next best thing on Saturday, when one gram of her cremated ashes soars into the heavens aboard a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico...
...words yields heavy casualties when the subject is war itself. In Washington, the White House charged Democrats with trying to win elections by losing a war, and Democrats fired back on a President sunk in a "state of denial." Dick Cheney accused Senate majority leader Harry Reid of ignorance and "defeatism." "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9% approval rating," Reid replied...
...It’s not a strategy on my part to deflect these questions to someone else,” she said, “but Dick, is there a concern about boys...
...Friedman, in his rambling April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives?...