Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been in demand since the late '20s, when Hollywood made pictures talk. The industry still feeds on lore about how some films' most indelible scenes -- say, the final words of A Star Is Born ("Mrs. Norman Maine") or Casablanca ("Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship") -- were the last-minute inspirations of uncredited writers or producers. Or about how David O. Selznick, in the middle of making Gone With the Wind, closed down production and asked writer Ben Hecht to save the picture. Hecht cobbled a few scenes, urged Selznick to adhere more closely to Sidney...
...sent his tanks rolling across the Demilitarized Zone in 1950, precipitating the cold war's first hot conflict and bloodshed on a grand scale, Beijing has been wedded to the fortunes of North Korea's founder, a man Mao Zedong embraced as a strong ally. Over the years the friendship sweetened and soured, but the alliance remained fast. Evidence that Deng Xiaoping's China was withholding approval of the designated heir was a potent signal. Of the dynastic passing of power, a Chinese academic remarked, "China cannot criticize, but we are not accustomed to this method." According to some reports...
...situation where there was no kind of warmth from anybody -- not from relatives or from friends and teachers. I lived the greater part of my life without almost a single happy day . . . It seems to have been my fate that I never experienced real love or friendship...
...increase the suspicion among many Muscovites that the qualities that once made their home special may be disappearing. Throughout its tumultuous past, this city always retained the atmosphere of a large smoke-filled kitchen, where people gather late at night to share and confide in an atmosphere of unselfish friendship. Muscovites rely on this "kitchen unity" as a kind of spiritual lodestar that guides them in more difficult times...
Last week, sitting on a neighbor's screened porch with a view of Fort Sumter behind them, the two women recalled the beginning of their association and friendship. Advising unpublished writers is not Humphreys' glass of ice tea. "I found that I'm usually a hurt more than a help," she says. Yet she phoned Bolton and was immediately hooked by the voice she heard. "I loved its sound, bright and quick ... a strong story-telling voice," she says. Bolton had had only one other encounter with the literary world, when she contacted a vanity publisher whose...