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...fondness of actors for Altman is legendary. Unlike directors who treat performers like two-year-olds -- bothersome, silly, not entirely rational -- Altman genuinely encourages them to help invent the film, not just do as he says. "I collaborate with everybody," Altman says, "but mostly the actors. You could point out any really good thing that happened in any of my films ((and ask)), 'Whose idea is that?' ((and)) it is almost invariably somebody else's. And I don't even know whose...
...similarity between the two candidates on some issues is a mirage. There is, in fact, a huge gap between Clinton's laundry list of proposals on the economy, education reform, foreign policy and other issues and Brown's mercurial tendency to invent policy on the fly. In New York those differences were often overwhelmed by campaign hoopla and media sideshows -- useful training for the general election in the fall...
...Eliot House didn't exist, some people would have to invent it" as a concept, he says. For critics of Eliot House, "it was a way to establish your own egalitarian legitimacy even though...once you got into Harvard you are no longer in an egalitarian setting...
Conservative critics charge that Faludi falsely conjures up a junta of antifeminists who conspired to force women to buy lacy underwear, watch reactionary movies, quit their jobs, mind the kids and do the laundry. "She chooses to invent a malevolent conspiracy instead of railing against God and the facts of nature," says author George Gilder, who describes himself as "America's No. 1 antifeminist." On the contrary, Gilder argues, the media and politicians are all in the ideological thrall of the feminists, "because feminism and sexual liberation are the religion of the intellectual class in America." The reason more women...
...more popularly celebrated and lucrative careers of Michael Graves and Robert Stern in the '80s and '90s depended on Venturi's breakthroughs in the '60s; Philip Johnson's highboyish AT&T Building, dreamed up in the late 1970s, might have been created by Venturi a decade earlier. "If you invent something," Scott Brown says, "it has a sort of agony to it. Your followers can take that as a point of departure -- it is much easier for them to make it beautiful." Finally Venturi gets to the bottom line: "They are selling what you have originated." The followers -- not Venturi...