Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beatty: "You never really know whether you are being perceived as a monster if you are a star." A few of his colleagues do see him that way. Says one highly respected studio head: "Warren won't make commitments and negotiates forever, trying to get his fees up. I wouldn't wish a negotiation with him on anyone." Buck Henry takes a more benevolent view: "Beatty is psychotic about the possibility of overlooking anything. If he could, he would be up in the projection booth of the theater showing his movie, pushing the projectionist aside, still trying...
...hoping he wouldn't disappoint me, and he didn't. Richard Schickel's review of If Ever I See You Again tells it like it was: sloppy tripe, with not even good-looking actors to redeem it. I hadn't been to a movie in ten years when I went to see it. Now it will...
...Edison was trying to introduce electricity in New York City, a band of protesters gathered in Central Park and every day they electrocuted a dog. They were trying to show that electricity is dangerous. What if, Jones muses, that special interest group had slowed the growth of electricity? We wouldn't be burning candles today, but we certainly would not be as advanced as we are?and we would have a lot fewer jobs...
...impotent. I have been for months. But you have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn't have continued using it." In fact, the chore was less onerous than she had feared. "I must hand it to the Rumanians," she confided to her diary. "Their idea of impotence in old age is the Anglo-Saxon notion of potency in the prime of life...
...easy: just look at those dull graphics behind any network anchorman as he nightly tries to animate a subject like inflation. Boredom isn't something journalists like to acknowledge; it is merely endured. That ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," wouldn't seem a curse to a journalist. Editors deal in novelty and discovery; the negative and less talked-about side of this is knowing when to spare the reader the overfamiliar. Newsweek editors were once oddly attached to a cynical acronym, MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over), applied to subjects they didn't want...