Word: writes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mihaileanu: The script was written before Life is Beautiful. I started it in 1993. I forbid myself to write without a producer, so I stopped work on it until 1995, when I met the producer. Then it took me three months to write the script. The conditions of the concentration camp don't interest me--what interests me is those people, in the shtetl, the lost people. I focused on their ways of living and fighting and loving. I pay more attention to the people, not the horrors of the camp; it is more collective...
...wish we could spend more time there. I guess next year we will have more time to settle down in the city, make music for the next album, write more songs and do more experimental stuff. That's what we miss a lot. Sean is a solo artist, Timo [the drummer] has his own stuff too. I feel like Cibo Matto unites us all. We take our time to do our individual things, then we'll play together again. But it's very important for us to be in NYC, to do our individual work, I think we need that...
...been denied the chance to study Shakespeare. I'm not sure what to do, but I sure can't do that." So, instead of teaching just one seminar, Richard invited the leftover half of us into his home. Every Monday evening we met to talk and think and write and study Shakespeare. I have never had a better course...
...Kiley says HIID's organization makes it prone to disputes like his. HIID project managers are expected to write monthly reports, detailing for the home office how each program is running. But, Kiley says, the reports are often little more than rehashed versions of the previous month's--sometimes with nothing more than a change of date...
...Zhenbing in China in 1996, near the end of a six-year journey around the world to write a book about humanity's environmental future. A 30-year-old economics professor who was liked on sight by virtually everyone he met, Zhenbing was my interpreter during five weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried...