Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some right to keep it as he imagined it. Yes, Beckett is stymieing the creative impulse of the artists at the ART, but he did not ask them to produce Endgame and they would be more stymied if he never wrote the play. The ART is free to write its own play set in a subway...
...when the blinding light of truth is turned back on the media, they appear in more human proportions. More often witnesses than participants, Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields shows that journalists can be just as easily trapped in the flow of history as the persons they write and report about...
...plan. Regan himself said the proposal was "written on a word processor." Translation: it could be easily altered. The plan elicited screams from every conceivable interest group, from charities to homebuilders. Lobbyists are already pressuring the Administration to reject provisions that would eliminate accelerated depreciation, which permits companies to write off plant and equipment faster than they actually wear out, and also oppose abolishing the tax preference for capital gains...
James had the courage of his contradictory convictions. He was one of the few English-speaking critics of his age to read and write extensively about contemporary French literature. And while he found much greater latitude in the choice of subjects than was then permissible in England or the U.S., the effects sometimes distressed him. He admired Madame Bovary as, among other things, a perfectly rendered parable of degradation, more likely to frighten susceptible readers than seduce them: "Practically M. Flaubert is a potent moralist; whether, when he wrote his book, he was so theoretically is a matter best known...
...late 1983, the rising tide of loan write-offs and "negative profits" thrust Continental Illinois's woes into the national spotlight, causing the FDIC to worry about paying each of the bank's depositors up to $100,000 if the bank should fall, and sending shivers through a banking industry already experiencing the highest number of individual failures since the Great Depression. All of this attention accelerated the spiral as depositors panicked flocking to teller windows to withdraw accounts totaling millions of dollars...