Word: scenario
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...money"), but she is now writing a new album "as it should be done. I'm writing the video as I write the songs." Olivia Newton-John actually hired a video writer to run up a script for an album that will be planned around the resultant scenario. Songwriters will receive a précis and be asked to compose to order...
Although the Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario has not come true, we can thank Orwell for his insights. In this age of MX missiles and nuclear freeze, Orwell has put the situation in perspective. He was so correct when he wrote, "In politics, one can never do more than decide which of two evils is lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...
Ehrenreich builds a solid and innovative case for the primacy of the male rebellion, founding her scenario almost entirely on economic arguments. In her introduction, she explains why both sexes have been disadvantaged, even oppressed, by the traditional structure of the family as economic unit. It is economic factors, far more than psychological or biological ones, she argues, that have precipitated the rebellions of both sexes...
...blue jeans with my name written on chicks' asses." Not Tony; he thinks big. "I want what's comin' to me-the world an' everything in it." With equal measures of charm and cojones, Tony will get to live out his Hollywood gangster scenario of underworld power, finally earning a couple hundred million a year as the coke czar of South Florida. And then, like any penny-ante public enemy who ever lurched across the big screen, Tony Montana will get what's coming to him. Boom...
Today, we find a population eager to embrace Americans, if not as saviors, at least as peculiar foreigners. Overt attempts to install a government unrepresentative of Grenadians will certainly generate hostility and a profound sense of betrayal. For the U.S., that scenario means supporting another repressive regime. And for Grenadians, things would not have changed very much. In this land of Bob Marley and reggae, perhaps the words of Pete Townshend and The Who best express their predicament...