Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frisbie said that, in retrospect, the trip wasa mistake...
Frisbie said that, in retrospect, the trip wasa mistake...
...signs of this, but it is true that in retrospect when I was informed of his decision, then you realized that, yes, he does work awfully, awfully hard, and it's hard to imagine anyone maintaining those hours...
...manage the studios, Schulhof quickly hired Jon Peters and Peter Guber, independent producers who had also never run a major studio. In retrospect, the amounts the Sony team spent verge on the hilarious. The company paid $200 million to buy the Guber-Peters company and gave the two men annual salaries of $2.7 million, as well as $50 million in deferred compensation. Sony then shelled out assets worth $500 million to settle a lawsuit that had been filed by Warner Bros., which had Guber and Peters under contract. "This was an obscenely expensive arrangement," says Porter Bibb, an analyst...
Author Weesner, a professor of German at the University of New Hampshire, tries to air out his novel with long, wistful passages recounting Glen's bittersweet entanglement with a married German woman when he was a young soldier. These sections work as a love story but, told in retrospect, simply point toward the hero in sour middle age. Scenes of the Berlin Wall coming down are clumsily atmospheric; East Germany is free and Glen at last has his divorce, but the connection is stagy. Maybe the moral is, Write about what you know, sure, except if what you know...