Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which thousands of gallons of water would crash through a glass dome atop a staircase inside the ship. The stunt coordinator's written assessment of hazards associated with the sequence included "risk of drowning," but a crew member says exhausted workers actually fell asleep during a morning safety meeting meant to minimize the danger. Producer Jon Landau says he was not aware of people dozing during those sessions. "I know nobody was falling asleep when we were shooting," he adds. Still, Landau says, endless hours are the nature of the business. "Any time you're on a movie...
...upscale bookseller Rizzoli announced plans to open a branch in a little boite in the main Benetton outlet on Fifth Avenue. The store, full of books about fashion, food and style, is meant to be the last word in trendiness. Its name? The e Cafe. For a decade, the alphabet's most culturally significant letter has been X. First there was Malcolm X, then the X-Men, The X-Files, the X Games, the fX network, and Gen X. But X, alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins...
...reacted to the harsh criticism of Israeli politics and mentality which is subtly embedded in the text, I feel justified in saying that the reviewer simply did not understand the play. I agree that The Day of the Dogs was not an easy play to stomach. It was not meant to be. --Gili Bar-Hillel, Translator and Director, The Day of the Dogs
...with Zung, spitefully proclaims at one point: "They got diseases...he touched 'em. That's disgusting," and later says that David just wanted to have "little, bitty, Chinky kids." Harriet says, in a disturbingly soft, coddling tone, of Vietnamese people, "Their poor funny little faces...Human faces weren't meant to look like that.... It is our triumph, our whiteness...
...according to family members, teaching meant as much to this man as research. For decades, he taught Natural Sciences 5, a first-year biology course that he invented. In a 1966 cover story, Time Magazine named Wald one of the "ten best teachers in the country...