Word: strived
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...books about your family? Kennedy: I don't. There are a lot of other things that I want to learn about. I kind of know that territory. I did read some books by people who served with my father in the White House. TIME: You have enormous fame but strive for privacy. Is that hard? Kennedy: It's been a part of my life, and the reasons for it are something I'm immensely proud of - my parents' work and the work of my uncles [Robert and Ted]. In that way, it's a very nice tribute to them...
...talk about Objectively Bad Films (from now on, OBF's), we need a brief course in moviemaking and movie-watching. Nearly all films strive to make their technique invisible. Audiences may be enthralled or bored by the picture, but they usually don't notice - at least, they're not supposed to - how the placement of the camera, the delivery of lines and the editing rhythm create a plausible fictional world. Even mediocre movies speak the language of film grammatically, if not beautifully...
...HAVE ENORMOUS FAME BUT STRIVE FOR PRIVACY. IS THAT HARD TO HANDLE...
...want (desire) to If the government controls what you want to do, they control what you can do. If you are under the impression that death exists, and you fear it, you do anything to avoid it. (This is the same way pain operates. Naturally we strive to avoid negative emotion/pain.) You allow yourself to fear death! World authorities allowed, and still allow you to fear death! In avoiding death you are forced to conform, if you fail to conform, you suffer mentally and physically. (Are world powers utilizing the natural survival instinct in a way that allows them...
...this same cosmopolitan ambition that lands the dinner menu in its utopian troubles. The eight entrées alone strive to represent Middle Eastern, Asian, Southern and Mediterranean influences. Elsewhere, the round-the-world tour continues with Caribbean appetizers, French cheeses and Indian desserts. In the Blue Room’s brave new world, Asian vegetables with soba noodles, ginger, soy and sesame ($17) can turn up next to braised lamb shank with dates and almonds, couscous and harissa ($22). This is not mere “American eclectic” or “world fusion...