Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'm an amateur." For Meyer, author of the bestselling The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, it is a promising and interesting directorial debut, requiring a deftness that has eluded more experienced moviemakers. We are in his debt for a bold idea skippingly brought...
...signal out of the U.S. Even so, the network is certain it can fulfill Pierce's boast. "You can assume, making the bid we did, that we did a lot of homework," said Roone Arledge, president of the news and sports divisions. "We came into this with the idea we were going to make the best bid we could, and it was the only bid we made...
...kinds of malevolent interventions. In one brilliant scene. Jade's father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as a grand parody of the idea that the course of true love never runs smooth. At last, David ends in jail, for breaking parole, if not for shattering all the lives around him. Jade vanishes into the oblivion of an unknowable domestic life with another man, a subsiding into reality that is as poignant...
...idea of going for broke: Perhaps we should combine an attack on the Cambodian sanctuaries with resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam as well as mining Haiphong? The opposition would be equally hysterical either way. I replied that we had enough on our plate; we would not be able to sustain such a gamble...
...considered negotiations as another battle. His idea of a negotiation was to put forward his unilateral demands. Their essence was for the U.S. to withdraw on a deadline so short that the collapse of Saigon would be inevitable. On the way out we were being asked to dismantle an allied government and establish an alternative whose composition would be prescribed by Hanoi. Any proposition that failed to agree with this he rejected as "not concrete...