Word: mindedness
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There was, of course, an element of romantic sentimentalism in much of this, as Chandler well knew. It was no coincidence that he called his first detective "Mallory." Chandler identified all too closely with his "shop- soiled Galahad," struggling to maintain a code of honor in a Hollywood that had...
Smelling advantage, Turner persistently -- and with no hard evidence to back up his claims -- warned that ratification of free trade would lead to U.S. and Canadian pressure to reduce Canada's comprehensive system of medicare and generous old-age pensions. Other opponents of free trade, many of them organized in...
A CRY IN THE DARK. A mother's nightmare -- the loss of her baby -- is compounded when she is wrongly convicted of murdering the infant. Meryl Streep is awesomely austere as the second victim in this tough-minded drama, based on a 1980 case in Australia.
After three steady years at Harvard, the cancer returned in the summer before his senior year. Yet Tom's single-minded quest to lead an uncompromised life bore on. Despite continual pain and debilitating chemotherapy every other weekend, Tom gained a second remission and stayed in school, taking two classes...
For old-style, independent-minded editors like Fanning and Kovach, such compromises are intolerable. But others argue that the rules of journalism have changed, and there is simply no going back. Says Fancher: "An editor who says to the publisher, 'I just want to concern myself with what's happening...