Word: directs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets did not go beyond their warnings to China and lateral accusations against the U.S. In a televised speech, President Leonid Brezhnev repeated Soviet demands for the "immediate" recall of Chinese troops "to the last soldier," but stopped short of any direct threat of retaliation. The Soviets continued to badger Washington with charges of complicity, direct or indirect, in the Chinese invasion. Washington's "evenhanded" policy of castigating both the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam was scornfully dismissed as a tilt toward China. It was that insistent Soviet view which torpedoed a United...
...mass electronics was rather weird, causing the McLuhanesque web to thrum with a new note. Ubiquitous transistor radios and cassette tape recorders with messages relayed over telephone lines to some 9,000 mosques all over Iran allowed a 78-year-old holy man camped in a Paris suburb to direct a revolution 2,600 miles away like a company commander assaulting a hill...
Nothing is very precise in this business, but I think we've directed the center of our shows attitudinally at a younger marketplace. Younger is a very broad definition, by the way. We try to direct the main thrust to adults who are under a certain age bracket. But we also want to interrelate characters within those shows that appeal to segments on both ends. If you want to have a program, for example, whose heartbeat is to teenagers and adults under 50, you try to have elements within those shows that appeal to under-teenagers and people over...
...order to ensure that fiction students received enough training in expository prose, Marius said he wanted to direct fiction next year, but Rich refused, saying Marius would have enough impact on the program through his role as Expos director and fiction teacher. At that point, Marius said he decided he could not compromise and canceled Expos...
...really can't blame Christopher Plummer for this modified Holmes. Playing himself makes a great deal of sense. He knows he is handsome and talented. He knows he has that charming scar on his lower lip, that little half-smile, that direct and demanding gaze. It's easy for him to be Christopher Plummer, and besides, he gets paid...