Word: preferable
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NICOLE KIDMAN: Yes, and that's a good thing for a director. You prefer someone who'll tell you what he wants and get in your face rather than sit back and be on the cell phone between takes...
...read your articles on America's new immigrants [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8], but I do not think of our country as a melting pot. To me that term implies that we have all been reduced to one large blob. I prefer to think of us as a symphony orchestra. Each instrument retains its individuality, yet contributes to the whole. Zena Sky Kansas City...
...even chance" of succeeding in the Dallas and Atlanta markets. Kahn, now a professor of political economy at Cornell, believes that the public is rooting for People. "The big carriers would like nothing more than to squash the little carriers," he says, "but the consumers have shown that they prefer competition. They want discount airlines to live." And as the name People Express implies, giving the people what they want is what the airline aims to keep doing. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Joseph J. Kane/Atlanta and Thomas McCarroll/New York
...organization as diverse as the U.N., some idiosyncrasies were bound to emerge. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra refused to hold his country's blue-and-white national flag (his Sandinistas prefer their own red-and-black banner) and thrust the Nicaraguan colors into his pocket during the shoot. Canada's Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, coming straight from a stem-winding speech before the General Assembly, decided to change into a fresh shirt...
...endlessly rips off events, shots, and makeup effects from better movies. When it comes out on video, this could lead to a good drinking game: do a shot whenever you see a theft (“homage,” if you prefer) from another movie. Off the top of my head, I found “The Sixth Sense,” “The Shining,” “The Exorcist,” “Poltergeist,” “The Ring,” the video for Nine Inch Nails?...