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...Belgrade were swift and matter-of-fact. On Wednesday night the envoys and Milosevic talked for 4 1/2 hours. Chernomyrdin never veered as he read from the prepared script. Ahtisaari went over it in detail, explaining why each demand was not negotiable. "Can we make improvements in the text?" Milosevic asked. "Absolutely not," Ahtisaari shot back. This was NATO's best offer, and not a comma could be changed. Hoping to soften the Finn, Milosevic invited him to dinner. "Let's not have dinner," answered Ahtisaari. Instead, the Serbian leader should go back to his advisers and consult them...
...large number of writers from outside TIME required a sizable force within TIME to keep the enormous amount of text in check. Organizing that labor fell to senior reporter Victoria Rainert, who called on reporters Bill Syken, Mary Hart, Valerie Marchant and Cinda Siler to marshal the facts. Editorial assistant Marianne Sussman kept track of writers' whereabouts, and research librarian Kathleen Dowling scoured databases to ply everyone with information. Two elaborate gatefold overviews of the past 100 years were produced by Time Inc. editor-at-large Daniel Okrent (athletes of the century) and senior editor Belinda Luscombe (stars...
...want to find out how a society becomes based on text and on media or defined through those things," Rzepka said...
...want to find out how a society becomes based on text and on media or defined through those things," Rzepka said...
...plot is more complicated than this--and much chattier. Even the opening is talky. "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic," the now familiar trapezoidal text-crawl tells us. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute." Immediately one is perplexed. A summary made sense in the earlier films; they were episodes IV, V and VI in the grand fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize...