Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we first got here, the city wasn't too stoked on the idea of having a skatepark. There was a whole lot of hassle with zoning laws and shit like that, and so we were shut down like a year...
...second big schedule change for Harvard was the trip to Texas, which would not only give the Crimson experience against other good teams, but it would also show the rest of the nation that Ivy teams can play good soccer. That was the idea, at least...
...narrowcast and personalized news sources and a decline in traditional broadcast and mass-market outlets. People have an easier time getting the information that interests them personally, but it comes at the expense of community: they are less likely to share a common pool of information, or the same idea of which events and trends are important, than they were when nearly everyone in town read the same paper and watched the same newscasts. "The biggest single change in the last decade," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts and ruffians and charlatans have...
Ironically, the idea for Bus did not originate with blacks but with Jewish producer Barry Rosenbush, who sensed the movie potential in a television-news story about the bonding that occurred among a group of black men from Los Angeles who met on a bus trip to the march. But, as Lee puts it, Rosenbush and his partner, Bill Borden, quickly realized that "being Jewish, it would have been very hard for them to pull it off without some brothers up in there." Rosenbush and Borden recruited Reuben Cannon, an African American and one of Hollywood's top casting directors...
...Washington's dirtiest tricksters and gave his name to an era of witch hunts: "[Joseph] McCarthy's idea of a meal is steak, very well done. 'Cremate it,' he tells the waiter. He almost always has steak for dinner, often for breakfast...He keeps irregular hours, gets up late, goes to bed usually long after midnight. A favorite McCarthy recreation is poker, but many find playing with him too nerve-racking...In seven-card stud, McCarthy will raise, raise again and then again without even bothering to look at his hole cards. Said one opponent: 'You get to the point...