Word: expression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more than just express strong words. You slapped lawsuits on newspapers that printed things you didn't like. That was the only way I could seek justice. But I never intervened in their activities or closed them down...
What's more, the Democratic presidential race was beginning, and the candidates were under pressure to do more than express generalized disapproval of Bush. And so for the past three weeks, Democrats have been outdoing one another in lambasting Bush and--as they...
Oliver Stone is a muckraker disguised as a moviemaker. He concocts films?Midnight Express, Scarface and Year of the Dragon as a screenwriter, Salvador and now Platoon as writer-director?whose blood vessels burst with holy indignation. And he gets money for his Savonarola sermons because he films them for peanuts: $5 million for Salvador, $6 million for Platoon. This new one is an up-tempo dirge, an I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, about his experiences as a young grunt in Viet Nam. Stone means the drama, the carnage, the horror, the horror...
...about eight years, then ended in divorce in 1982. Although Simon wrote five films for her to star in (notably 1977's The Goodbye Girl), part of the problem was career conflict. There were other tensions, about which they are enigmatic. "Marsha was starting to find new ways to express herself in her life and her work," Simon says. Mason remains attentive and admiring. Says she: "Neil is totally honest. He doesn't edit much, which can be a problem for someone living with him, but I'd rather have that than someone who doesn't communicate...
...hardly Royal's first ham-handed approach to foreign policy, which is any French president's principal brief. Last month, she sat idly by in Lebanon when the Israeli government was compared to Nazis, then seemed to express approval for the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank. She has stuck to her internationally unique position that Iran should be denied access even to civilian nuclear power, and even praised the "swiftness" of Chinese justice on a visit this month to China. Diplomacy, then, is not her forte...