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...chances) calling Titanic “the most dreadful piece of work I’ve ever seen in my entire life” and fellow Oscar powerhouse American Beauty “badly acted and directed,” and we have nothing less than a big, angry mess of behind-the-scenes squabbling...
...years ago," he says, "I was on the cover of Inc magazine. People who had been on the cover keep in touch with one another as a kind of informal club. And I realized that a lot of these people are a mess. They're on their fifth marriage, or their livers are failing, or their kids are drug addicts. And I said, 'You know what? I may not turn out to be a big financial success, but I'm going to go back to what I love...
...Foreign Minister gets upset about the "hyper power" of the United States but has little to offer as a realistic alternative. Attempts at Middle East mediation have come to nothing. West Africa, where Paris continued to play a neo-colonialist role after the end of empire, is a mess...
Bolker: I think when writing is a habit, you don’t end up in that 11th-hour reading period bind. Bill Perry, who was the head of the Bureau of Study Counsel, described writing by saying, “First you make a mess and then you clean it up.” Just as you don’t drive your car with the emergency brake on, you don’t mix the creative and the critical parts of writing. First you throw everything at the page and then go back and look with a steely...
...problem, MIT officials say, was not a chemical mess but a bureaucratic...