Word: rue
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...rein in the wild horses of this art-industry, Hollywood in 1930 charged Will Hays, a former Postmaster General, with establishing and enforcing standards for screen stories and behavior. At times the regulators used diplomacy: one official, objecting to gruesome screams in Murders in the Rue Morgue, suggested "reducing the constant loud shrieking to lower moans and an occasional modified shriek." At other times they took the stern approach, telling Howard Hughes he was forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture...
...every year, I now know that my mid-December visions of a worry-free vacation and a productive, efficient reading period are a stretch at best and imaginary at worst. It's not the workload that really bothers me. It's not even the schedule itself that makes me rue this time of year, because in some ways our post-break exam system is a blessing: no other school I know of gives its students quite this much time to prepare for exams and catch up on reading that got skimmed, forgotten or ignored during the semester...
...police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with Serbs increasingly unhappy with Milosevic, the Butcher of the Balkans may rue the day he let his hatchet...
Watching Mo Vaughn's play saddened me; next year, I believe he will transfer his invaluable talents as a leader, slugger and first baseman to another team, and we will rue his passing as we did Roger Clemens'. So while I celebrated this team's accomplishments, I viewed its future with approbation...
...Republican Congress is unlikely to bail Clinton out. But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that although the White House will rue the decision for selfish reasons, the Secret Service is genuinely worried about future presidents ducking out of agents' earshot -- and into danger. "They sincerely think the next assassination of a president will be on Ken Starr's hands," he says. For that reason, an appeal to the Supreme Court seems likely -- and that of course would be fine with the White House; that court is on break until October...