Word: projected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success has been discouraging to people in politics, much as the success of The Blair Witch Project is discouraging to filmmakers: if the public embraces something so shallow and tedious, what future is there for the professionals? But the source of the man's strength is no secret. It is that he speaks plain English with none of the circuitous posturing and preening of public officials, who cannot give you the time of day without saying that time is a topic of great concern to them, as it is to all Americans, and that they have long devoted themselves...
Taken as a trend, these optimistic titles frighten me. They are the product of a stock market that has gone higher, faster, than just about anyone expected. It's natural to project the recent past to the future. But it's also natural for things to change. Long periods of disappointment have followed long periods of heady market gains at least twice this century...
ANNETTE BENING Beauty gets raves, but restless hubby needs new project. If only they'd greenlight Shampoo...
...really like television. I like both TV and movies. It doesn't make any difference as long as you have a good project...
...Hollander, such efforts miss the point: "Like stage costumes, couturiers' work is often embalmed in exhibitions that can be ghastly essays in necrophilia." She scorns equally "efforts to chain [fashion] up in Cultural Studies." In Feeding the Eye, a new collection of previously published essays, Hollander furthers her project of making the world safe for fashion criticism...