Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What got to me was that I really hadn't planned on the invasion of Kuwait my second day on the job. I supported the President, but I told my colleagues, "This is not good for car and truck sales." It was not good for the country...
...soon-to-be-published thriller, Embrace the Serpent. Written with her sister Nancy Northcott, the book features imperialist Russians and drug-running Arabs conspiring to replace a dead Castro with another evil Cuban dictator. Readers who can get past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations in no way comforted him") and breathless dialogue ("There's got to be a way!") will not find it hard to decipher Marilyn's ideological prejudices. The hero is a black Republican Senator from Georgia...
...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...
...political savants who have been denouncing this zippy melodrama hadn't already existed, Oliver Stone might have invented them, because they fulfill his one-size-fits-all conspiracy theory. Hyper down, pundits! Don't deny Stone the right due any artist: to interpret history through his own prism. And give moviegoers the chance to make up their own minds about who shot President Kennedy. The only thing that Stone's dazzling assemblage of political-science fiction attempts to assassinate is complacency...
...thought that all other students on this campus, no matter what their disagreements, would concur on the importance of productive discourse. It's not so controversial, especially at a university, to be in favor of talking productively about key ideas. I asked him again--maybe he hadn't really said it. But he said it again. He said that he was not interested in productive discourse. Really...