Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Madison has never drawn his .357 magnum service revolver or needed the 12-gauge in the cab of his pickup. But it could happen any time. Once a fellow wildlife officer approached the cabin of two suspected poachers near Colorado Springs, and narrowly escaped a hail of bullets that set his pickup on fire...
...whites and blacks, smokers and nonsmokers. Regional differences are strong, and so are those between large cities and smaller ones. Despite a general decline in courtesy in recent decades, many Southerners pride themselves on having retained quite formal manners; New Yorkers, by contrast, take a perverse pride in their fellow citizens' rudeness...
...trumpeting the cause of auteurs, directors whose point of view and command of visual style entitled them to the respect given novelists and painters. In 1958, at 26, he directed The 400 Blows, brought the new wave of film makers to its crest and became a budding auteur. With fellow New Wavers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Truffaut yanked film into the modernist age. No longer would the screen serve merely as a window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything, in any and all fashions. Time could be stretched or collapsed...
...most suspenseful sequence shows Pran desperately negotiating for his employer's life with rebels who have captured him), the reporter dismisses broad hints about what the fate of a Cambodian native who has served a Western employer might be if the Communists seize power. When he and some fellow journalists (among them the good John Malkovich) try to concoct a false passport the gesture is too little, too late. Pran is sent to forced labor and forced re-education in the countryside, where millions died, while Schanberg, back home, pulls what distant wires he can to rescue...
...probably gave [some faculty] some information they wouldn't have known. People are discussing the issue all the time," said teaching fellow Daniel G. Swanson...