Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these issues. It is on the domestic economy. He, Premier Zhu Rongji and the leadership around them are worried that without continued high growth, China might revert to the chaos he witnessed during the Cultural Revolution. "It's the economy, stupid!" could just as easily be Jiang's mantra as Clinton's. His prescription--which sometimes strikes me as too much of a contradiction in terms to work--is for a "socialist market economy," in which free markets and free ideas are encouraged until things get boisterous or too messy. Then central planners step in, and there are crackdowns...
...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...mantra that I was thinking a lot about when I was working on Glamorama. And it's just: Don't be an asshole. That's really what I tell myself a lot . I was just thinking--don't make a lot of bad choices and don't be an asshole...
...found myself feeling calm, happy and content living my alternative lifestyle. High-blood-pressure Harvard felt very far away. I had a new mantra that I repeated to myself on the beach and when I saw a giant rainbow and when we drove through the mountains: location, location, location...
...shelters and off the streets, regardless of their other problems. "No matter what is true about the homeless," says Mary Ann Gleason, executive director of the National Coalition of the Homeless, "they all have a lack of housing." That sounds like a return to the "housing, housing, housing" mantra that liberals sang in the '80s. Getting Americans to take the idea seriously again might require the return of liberalism itself...