Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the quotes on which the authors cast aspersion are phrases that everyone knows to be inaccurate. Any one who thinks that Humphrey Bogart really said "Play It Again Sam" hasn't seen Casablanca. If you think the Bible is the home of the maxim "God helps those who help themselves," then God help...
...public is never wrong," proclaimed film pioneer Adolph Zukor, and on such wisdom Hollywood was built. Zukor's maxim is as sound today as it was when Rodeo Drive was just a furrow in a field, but now it is being challenged by what may be the most offensive idea since Smell-O-Vision: commercials in movie theaters and on videocassettes...
Eventually the passengers, many still clad in pajamas, were taken to Spitsbergen, in Norway's polar Svalbard archipelago, and then flown back to West Germany. Emergency teams kept the Maxim Gorky from sinking by pumping water out of the vessel and plugging the gashes with cement brought out to them by a Russian freighter...
...could the Maxim Gorky, which was equipped with radar and other modern navigational aids, encounter so serious a mishap? Norwegian experts suggested that the ship, commanded by Captain Marat Galimov, who apparently was on his first voyage in the Arctic seas, may have been cruising at excessive speed. When it struck the ice, according to Senja captain Sigurd Kleiven, the Soviet ship was steaming at about 18 knots in an area where Norwegian maritime officials say no more than 3 to 5 knots is advisable at this time of year. Said Bjorn Sorensen, a Lutheran parish priest on Spitsbergen...
...Hong Kong, Sri Lankans fleeing to London, Haitians landing in Miami and thousands of others. -- China metes out swift "justice" following the student revolt. -- After 14 years of civil war, is peace coming to Angola? -- A daring Norwegian rescue saves more than 900 aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky...