Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone hailed the Sullivan decision. Many targets of press inquiry thought it amounted to giving journalists a gun and a license to kill. In retrospect, some editors think they responded to their new legal protection by relaxing their standards of research and caution. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "Sullivan helped make us less conscientious and considered. It also made us overconfident and cocky." Nevertheless, the Supreme Court during the next few years continued to broaden press protection to include coverage of "public figures"--people who did not hold an official position but who had voluntarily made themselves newsworthy...
...Britain, where she spent the past two years, Svetlana was an often charming but restless, unhappy and quarrelsome woman. Her feverish enthusiasm for people and places could quickly turn into disappointment and recrimination, as evidenced by a trail of broken friendships and angry words. In retrospect, it seems clear that her ultimate quarrel was with her father, whom she fatefully resembled. As she once said about the Soviet people, Stalin's "shadow still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us, and we very often obey." The story of Svetlana's life is the chronicle of her losing...
...which editors cut from The Wizara of Oz. Just before Dorothy and the Scarecrow hit the Yellow Brick Road, Bolger performs a comic dance in which he flies through the air and, with the help of reverse photography, catapults off rubber fences up and down the lane. Although, in retrospect, Gene Kelly wonders at its exclusion, this bizarre dance clearly clashes with the conventional dancing in the rest of the show...
...retrospect, the whole thing was fun, though at the time, it was painful," he added. To unwind, "We did your standard juvenile camp acts, but with a vengeance...
...retrospect, Reagan should have refused to debate. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and leave no doubt...