Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trust his instincts on foreign policy, thanks in part to successful interventions in Bosnia and Haiti. "He wanted the chemistry to be such that he would be his own chief policy designer," says a White House insider, "and that he would have people who would carry out his vision...
...remains a concrete reality. Cose, author of A Nation of Strangers and The Rage of a Privileged Class and a commentator for Newsweek, confronts this most sensitive of American subjects with a mix of think-tank analysis, anecdotal journalism and cautious Utopianism. Before he is through, however, his lofty vision of a color-blind society has been modified into a 12-step program for a "race-neutral" nation...
...facilities are disguised by tidy vineyards and lovingly detailed re-creations of turn-of-the-century Northern California architecture: even the luxe employee gym in this better class of Disney World has Arts and Crafts-like lighting fixtures. Clearly this is the domain of a man with a strong vision, one for which he has just as clearly been remunerated many times over, so it's hard to know precisely what to think when he claims, "I'm just working on the fringes here in San Francisco of what is aesthetically acceptable." Is he joking, fighting old battles, or indulging...
Twenty years later, much has changed, including Star Wars--not the few minutes of noodling by Lucas and his effects mavens but the way we look at the film. Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future, or of the technologically advanced past that Lucas imagined. Today we can wallow in the film's sleek retro-kitsch; even the opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters...
...music career. Kedar Massenburg, a 32-year-old record-company executive, heard Badu's demo tape and offered to sign her to his fledgling label, Kedar Entertainment. Says Badu: "I had several offers, but I went with him because he was young, black, very smart, and he had a vision. None of the other labels had a vision. I was afraid I'd get lost in the shuffle of a bigger label...