Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find yourself saying, 'Wow, I'm going to steal that idea for one of my films,'" says creative adviser Alfonso Cuaron, whose credits as a director include The Little Princess. "And when one of them gets famous, you can say, 'Of course. I was the adviser...
...those who think of the war from time to time--how it tore America apart--remember it with a wincing clarity; Vietnam can be appallingly fresh in the mind. The other day I was shocked to talk to a young man who had no idea what the Tet offensive was. How could he not know?, I wondered, illogically. In those days (Tet was early 1968), we opened the mailbox to get the paper, and the news jumped out like rattlesnakes...
...seductive lead-in for this juicy collection of true tales. Bronson profiles the inventor who finances his idea by growing pot, the programmer who blows off a major project for a squirrel-hunting trip, the project manager who fantasizes about murdering a co-worker. Even the used-cubicle broker has his charms. As in his fictional satires, Bombardiers and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, this clever storyteller keeps you laughing as you breeze from one episode to the next...
...when he eases up, he does so only partway. His idea of a dropout is a genius inventor taking a turn as a lead technologist for Disney. An engineer who moves to Maine to become a glass blower might have been a better example...
HYDRO-QUEBEC During heat wave, sells power to sweltering N.Y.C. at 30 times regular price. Bright idea...