Word: wide
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...Joffe and Lean have other qualities in common. They both understand how to capture history on film. Lean's films (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and now A Passage to India) synthesize a coherent narrative inside of a wide vision of history. Joffe has mimicked many of Lean's techniques, achieving a balance between the personal relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing...
...Baker's wide political experience is welcomed by many business leaders, who figure that he will be a more effective promoter of financial legislation than Regan. "The President has appointed someone at Treasury who understands the political workings of our Government," says Donald Marron, chairman of Manhattan's Paine Webber brokerage firm. "This is the highest priority. Congress and the Administration need to form a consensus and move ahead on deficit reduction and tax reform." Business leaders expect Baker to get along well with Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve, who was a favorite whipping boy of Regan...
Since Americana (1971), Don DeLillo has converted our national confusions into witty, imaginative fiction. End Zone, a resourceful handling of football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...
They call each other Ron-san and Yasu. That is only fitting, since Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone describe each other as good friends. So when they met for the fifth time, at the sleek Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles last week, their wide-ranging talks were amicable, leading to what Nakasone described as "complete agreement on all issues." Actually, the two leaders were able to reach only a vague accord on the stickiest issue of all: what the Japanese call boeki masatsu, or trade friction, and what American manufacturers call by less euphemistic epithets...
...different from those who strolled about the harbor or slept as Arnold scratched out his poem by the window? Everything depends on how one wishes to live one's life, which still requires the constancy Arnold promised his bride, and a good deal of courage besides. So we race wide-eyed into one more year, searching for the land of dreams that lies as near...