Word: intentionally
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...line also caught the eye of Chloe president Mounir Moufarrige, who was intent on attracting younger customers to the label. Chloe had its heyday during Lagerfeld's tenure in the '60s and '70s, and although the designer returned in 1992, it never managed to regain its cachet. Moufarrige arrived at McCartney's studio in December 1996, pretending to be a Rome retailer. "I was attracted to the level of detail she put in her clothes," says Moufarrige. "And it helped that she did a very good job of convincing me that a 25-year-old and a 45-year...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...
Obviously there is no seditious intent in this misinformation, but the lack of specificity of names obfuscates her article. When it is unclear in which school serving the more than 90,000 students of the county "a young Dekalb student, Ronald Gaines" actually attended, her editorial loses credibility...
...subtext of this discussion, even if notthe intent of [Cheuse and Anna M. Baldwin'00, thebill's co-sponsors], is the issue of what thefuture of Radcliffe is going to be," Stewart said...
...legal principle of harassment hinges on impossibly squishy terms like "unwelcome" and "pervasive," words that a thousand lawyers can define in a thousand ways. As a consequence, some despicable harassers get off easy, just as some men (and, increasingly, women) with innocent intentions can have their lives ruined. That's because intent seldom defines harassment; reception and perception...