Word: idea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another idea, called the cold dark matter theory, has gathered more support. This theory postulates an as yet undiscovered form of exotic subatomic particle that pervades the universe. The presence of this mysterious "dark matter" could explain why most galaxies -- including our Milky Way -- seem, judging from measurements of gravitational forces, to contain about ten times as much invisible matter as they do visible stars, gas and dust. The existence of dark matter is needed to fill the gaps in some of the Grand Unified Theories that physicists have concocted to account for the fundamental structure of matter and energy...
...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...
...that Murphy's worst idea is his own character. His box-office power having brought Paramount groveling to its knees, offering him any indulgence he wants, Murphy has come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny...
...problem is that it's not a plan -- it's an idea. What we call the Brady Plan is an extraordinary initiative. It recognizes that debt is a political problem -- one of the major issues of world security -- and not just a matter between U.S. banks and Latin American nations. The Brady Plan has as its basis the reduction of debt and the realization that the countries of Latin America cannot continue servicing their debt in the way the banks have obliged us to up to now. In the past five years, Latin America has paid back the total amount...
...order for the Brady Plan to be more than just an idea, in order for it to work, the decision of the banks ((to reduce debt)) must not be voluntary. The U.S. Government should modify certain banking regulations to facilitate the concessions that the debtor countries are asking...