Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lehigh is a strong offensive rebounding team, but we don't feel they're as strong defensively," Snowden said after viewing some game film of the Engineers. "We won't change our offensive scheme against them. We plan to go inside and out against them...
...social agendas. So they set out to defeat the nomination of Clarence Thomas, and when that failed, they decided to do everything possible to negate his influence. The new book Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which you reviewed ((Books, Nov. 14)), shows a part of that scheme. But what is Thomas accused of? Behaving crudely toward Anita Hill. Either it never happened, or it was so minor that it did not matter to Hill at the time. Either way, the accusation provides no basis for destroying a Justice who has every bit as much ability as Thurgood Marshall...
...critics place Kieslowski at the very apex of modern filmmakers. That's wrong, but he certainly forces audiences to do something they are rarely asked to: look at movies. To name your film Red guarantees that the viewer will be as alert as a traffic cop to the color scheme -- to the red telephone, awning, sweater, and so on. Kieslowski has a fashion photographer's showy sense of pictorial alienation. He'll isolate Valentine (as in Valentine's Day, heart, red; get it?) in a corner of the film frame or pose her in an attitude of anxious ennui...
Comrades, Dean Epps's outrageous directive is only the beginning of a fiendish scheme to turn the rest of us into mindless slaves...
...fact that Margolies-Mezvinsky lost her bid for re-election to a Republican that sets her apart in the scheme of a greater Democratic bloodbath. It's the fact that she had within her power the means to make her re-election much more likely. And she decided on principle...