Word: united
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rumor started Thursday night, when students in Feldstein's Social Analysis 10 went to Jefferson Hall hoping to take a unit test, according to the course office. The optional tests, offered throughout the year, give students in the introductory economics course a chance to boost their final grades...
...think the defense had its best game as a unit all year," sophomore keeper Peter Albert said. "Communication between them and me was great, and we were able throughout to sort out most of the potential damage before it happened...
...media mavens wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. But last week's word that the entertainment industry's most successful director, most revered studio chief and most creative billionaire were forming their own company smote Hollywood with nuclear force. Spielberg will fold his unit, Amblin, into the new organization (though he may still direct outside projects). Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot. And Geffen will make music make money...
That's down the road. Even an established studio takes 18 months to get a movie from script to screen. And an animation unit takes three or four years to fine-tune a feature. Soon the Big Three will be obliged to step out of the p.r. spotlight and into the crucible of creation. But for them, and maybe even for consumers, the future rolls out like a red carpet. Spielberg, after all, redefined the role of movie director; Katzenberg helped redefine the animated film; and Geffen, in many media, kept redefining himself. If these guys don't make entertainment...
...jungles stood dark and unyielding. The corpses gaped. The war itself was a mystery. Nobody knew what it was about, or why they were there, or who started it, or who was winning, or how it might end." Wade is an amateur magician nicknamed "Sorcerer" by his unit, and Vietnam becomes a place where he tries to make reality go away; it is a perfect training ground for the subterfuge and surveillance tricks people also use in love...