Word: notionalism
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...screen in Railroaded! In Mann movies, the broken bottle, not the gun, is the favored weapon of menace, perhaps because it's more sickeningly intimate. John Ireland, the film's primary thug, breaks a bottle and comes after Joe. Raymond Burr, Mann's inspired (and quite literal) notion of a heavy, had used one in Desperate, and he does it again in Railroaded!, breaking a bottle over...
...contestants' mouths, but a photo shoot and a watchable episode is created," says Bowe. Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that's just not true. We think about what story we will shape for each contestant. We consider story lines and create a sense of drama around the girls. This is just what a writer on Lost would...
...that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality: it is not on U.S. soil. It would have been dismantled long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary Guantanamo as a font of intelligence is a dubious notion, for the value of information obtained under torture is highly questionable. Believing that useful information can still be gleaned from some of the detainees after four years is as stupid, arrogant and shameful as continuing to detain those no longer facing regular questioning. But then Guantánamo has more...
...press might have less difficulty withholding the details of ongoing national-security programs if it were not distracted by the grandiose notion that it must "speak truth to power." A better objective would be to provide accurate and useful information. That may not sound as exciting, but it is a clearer conception of what the public needs...
...negotiations. But to achieve the more immediate task, the Secretary of State has to be prepared to stay in the region as long as necessary, as was the case with Kissinger in the early '70s, and she also has to be prepared to talk to the parties concerned. The notion that the U.S. cannot talk to some of the Arab players is a self-imposed ostracism. The alternative to that is to sit in front of a mirror and to talk to oneself and that is hardly likely to be very productive...