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Word: middleman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best, Simon says he feels not like a writer but like some sort of secretary, a middleman between the characters and the paper. Furthermore, he believes in the playwright's axiom that "great plays are not written, but rewritten." Rewriting, Simon feels, is "like taking a test, finding out the answers, and then taking the test again the next day." He admits that he has often been tempted to rewrite some of his past plays, but always opts to start a new play. "Every time I believe that this will be the perfect one, but of course it never will...

Author: By Troy Segal and Michael E. Silver, S | Title: A Man of Wit and Wisdom | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor. At kitchen labs dotted around the country, coca leaves brought in from all over the Andes are distilled into a paste and then converted into a base (150 lbs. of leaves make 1 lb. of base, worth more than $2,000). In a final stage, this base is crystallized into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...last diners leave, the door is locked and only the select can enter. The man who answers the door after three quick knocks nods Martinez into the red-draped dark room, with music blaring from a four-piece Latin band. After a round of beer with his friend the middleman, Martinez makes the transaction and goes home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Whether pay-and-escape is in fact Hanoi policy remains unconfirmed. But a number of refugees say that those who want to leave Viet Nam can simply register with a middleman and make a down payment in gold or dollars. They are taken to ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Barring the Boat People | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Agribusiness Accountability Project: Now based in San Francisco, has produced consistently the best literature on the corporate takeover of American agriculture, and the middleman's gouging of the consumer...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Hey, Good Lookin', Whatcha Got Cookin'? | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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