Word: conceptions
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...Lewinsky. There were mountains of interesting things to write about, of rather direct concern to large numbers of people. (A special favorite: the phone company has decided to start charging customers $3 a month for not using long distance. You must admit, it's a concept...
While I was stuck on such pedestrian topics as the effort to bring back flammable pajamas for children (there's another concept), my brethren in the media turned in a performance that has made us more unpopular with the American public than Linda Tripp. Nice going, team...
...have Mr. Starr's report (Mr. Starr, now there's a whole other concept) giving a grateful populace such detail about the President's sexual encounters with Ms. Lewinsky that we hardly know how to thank him. How nice. I'm certainly glad that's been established beyond a reasonable doubt...
...these norms have to be hammered out and strengthened for centuries by those who fought for freedom. But we received our freedom as a gift from our masters' hands. Ten years ago, Russia swore by freedom--and measured its worth by the availability of sausage. We had borrowed the concept of freedom from those who had succeeded at it, but we never realized that we had misinterpreted this ideal...
...calibrated precision. "The word remake is a fallacy," says cinematographer Christopher Doyle. "What we're trying to do is revoke and evoke." Besides running the older movie on a DVD player, Van Sant tacked photos of various freeze-frames on a nearby bulletin board as guides. "The concept was to use the same camera angles and storyboards," he says. "It's probably 95% true to the original...