Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor who only has one student every other year in a seminar on a very complex subject, to which he's devoted a whole lifetime, that he's eager to convey to others. That professor, after a while, no matter how enthusiastic he is, begins to wonder, should he be doing something else...
...President's man," Senate I Majority Leader Robert Byrd keeps saying. "I am the Senate's man." As Congress reconvenes this week after a month's recess, President Carter may well wonder just who, if anybody, is the President's man. His friends are displaying a new balkiness, his enemies a new boldness. While mounting opposition to a President is predictable, Carter is especially dependent on a dexterous balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter...
Jody Powell always maintained that one of Jimmy Carter's problems was his tendency to base his decisions solely on logic. Back in the Georgia statehouse, Carter used to wonder why it was necessary to butter somebody up to get him to do what the facts showed he should do. Carter did very little buttering...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...
...find it degrading to educate people because they think they are talking to the intelligentsia. We had a good interview with Sadat, but nobody explained when he mentioned Gaddafi. Not only the slob on the street but the average educated people who go to '21' or whatever wonder who or what a Gaddafi is. It sounds like a disease...