Word: impromptu
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...virtually disowned Mask. Seems Producer Martin Starger cut two scenes from the film and replaced music by Bruce Springsteen (Rocky's favorite rock star) with four Bob Seger songs. Twenty-two directors, including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Frank Capra, came to Bogdanovich's defense; so did an impromptu protest committee, Moviegoers Against Studio Kibitzing (M.A.S.K.). So the picture offers two parables: one of Hollywood devouring its own, one of the man in the lion mask. The second is worth attending to, for it demonstrates anew that there is such a thing as an honest cry at the movies...
...after the announcement of Chernenko's death, Reagan and a small group of aides that included Secretary of State George Shultz and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane gathered in the Oval Office to discuss the possibility of a Moscow trip. Shultz set forth the pros and cons of an impromptu summit, but Reagan had already made up his mind during earlier meetings with White House Chief of Staff Don Regan and Close Friend Michael Deaver. The decision was not to go, mainly because there was insufficient time to prepare for a meeting with Gorbachev and little prospect of fulfilling...
...attempt to revitalize the team, the fans started to come alive--the pressbox started an impromptu "wave", a cymbal-toting member of the Harvard band showed up, and one rooter pulled out placards saying "Fight Fiercely Harvard...
...impromptu poll was instigated six months ago when a male reader from Indiana wrote in extolling the virtues of his penile implant and how it changed his life. One irate female reader from Oregon shot back, "This man is totally ignorant of the workings of the female mind and heart. If you were to ask 100 women how they feel about sexual intercourse, I'll bet 98% would say, 'Just hold me close and tender. Forget about the act.' " Taking up the challenge, Landers posed the query to her female fans: "Would you be content to be held close...
Seldom is her collaboration as bald-faced as it was at an impromptu press conference last August in California: when the President hesitated after a question about arms control, she whispered an all-purpose answer ("We're doing everything we can") within earshot of reporters, which the President then repeated as his own. (Both Reagans claim that she was just talking to herself, not intending to cue him at all.) In her serious intramural forays at the White House, she is fairly subtle, talking up ideas from Baker and Deaver to her husband, as well as transmitting intelligence about...