Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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Everybody seems to know Alan Greenspan. I think we accepted him as a smart guy. ... There is something very magical, mystical, almost voodoo-like about what he does.
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The biggest thing driving the DVD market is not watching it, but owning it. There's a study that found an overwhelming amount of people buy full series, but have yet to open them or to take the cellophane off. The satisfaction is in owning them.
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They build up interest in the contestants so there's a lot of emotional attachment. You care who gets voted off. It's a soap opera.
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They've taken the idea that it used to take a leisurely whole season to achieve, and they've done it in one single episode.
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They like gimmicks and gizmos. They see these things as the constant promise in America that a new idea can change their lives. These people are frequently disappointed when they buy that can of spray to cover up their bald spot.
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They like gimmicks and gizmos, ... They see these things as the constant promise in America that a new idea can change their lives. These people are frequently disappointed when they buy that can of spray to cover up their bald spot.
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There's this almost defeatist attitude in the Midwest that Brazil has captured most world markets growth recently and the U.S. WTO round proposal will significantly cut subsidies linked to production of specific commodities.
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There was a sense that everything we were hearing we'd heard before. This was like a rerun. ... So much of this had already been on, there were no bombshells dropped.
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As soon as distilled spirits were discovered and their effect on one's consciousness known, they became an important part of the tradition.
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As we go later into the spring we're going to warm up. Then again, it is April in New England.
It's just so dense, so literate, so extraordinarily well-written, so layered,
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It really kind of works in its absolute, utter simplicity, its kind of stripped down Zen-like quality.
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For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,
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It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system.