Word: impressment
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Jodie Foster, 43, has been in show business since she was 3 years old. She has experienced the highs of fame (including two Oscars) and the lows (John Hinckley Jr. said he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan to impress her). She talks to TIME's Belinda Luscombe about playing a baddie in her new film, Inside Man, how she gets all the guy roles and why she's not Tom Cruise...
...TIME:What's your strategy for developing the next great innovation that will make people go wow!, in a world where new technologies and devices come along frequently and as a culture we're technologically spoiled and harder to impress...
Knowing that a tenured youth football coach won’t impress many recruiters, I’ve started to get desperate to add other activities to my resumé. Like many other Harvard undergraduates, my natural inclination in this situation was to try to found an extracurricular club. The only problem is, the last time I checked the number of clubs at Harvard, I got a figure so big it had to be expressed in scientific notation. In order to be original, I started a club called “Collectors of Potato Chips that are Shaped Like Things...
...pray tell, am I revealing these embarrassing facts? It’s not to impress you—indeed, I’m assuming you’re a modern, enlightened woman, and thus despise anything that stinks of nouveau-riche American aristocracy. Even if it’s Jewish nouveau-riche American aristocracy...
...defend myself or impress you, why do I write to you? I suppose it’s because being a legacy here has taught me an important lesson, and it’s one that I’d like all Harvardians to heart. Especially you, for reasons that will become obvious...