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  • 21One-Eyed Jacks — (1961)    This film began as a STANLEY KUBRICK project. MARLON BRANDO had been hankering to make a Western since the mid 1950s, encompassing “the beautiful hills and the wild life of the old West,” according to JOHN BAXTER’s biography. By the… …

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  • 22direct — di|rect1 [ dı rekt, daı rekt ] adjective *** ▸ 1 not involving others ▸ 2 going straight to place ▸ 3 clear and honest ▸ 4 exact ▸ 5 with full force ▸ 6 related through parents 1. ) usually before noun involving only the two people or things… …

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  • 23direct — I UK [dɪˈrekt] / US / UK [daɪˈrekt] / US adjective *** 1) going straight to a place and not stopping or changing direction on the way there direct flights from Scotland to North America There is a more direct route straight up the motorway. The… …

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  • 24direct */*/*/ — [daɪˈrekt] , [dɪˈrekt] adj I 1) going straight to a place without stopping or changing direction direct flights from Scotland to North America[/ex] 2) involving only the two people or things that are mentioned and with no one or nothing else… …

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  • 25direct — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Ciceronian, Spartan, address, address to, administer, administrate, advise, advocate, aim, aim at, allude to, apply, appoint, arrowlike, articulated, artless, ascetic, assign, austere, bald, bare, be master, be… …

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  • 26address one's self to — Direct one s speech or discourse to, speak to, apply to, give attention to, turn attention to, direct efforts to or upon, set to work upon, endeavor to, set about, go at …

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  • 27Direct election republican model (Australia) — A direct election republican model is a proposal for Australian constitutional reform. If proposal of this type is approved at a referendum, it would establish Australia as a republic with a Head of State chosen directly by the Australian… …

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  • 28Attention (advertising) — In advertising research attention is the direct measure of a commercial s ability to win in the street fight for audience attention. It is one of the three report card measures , and . Attention is also graphed visuall in the .To research… …

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  • 30One Woman Can — The One Woman Can campaign was launched in 2007 by Americans for UNFPA to raise awareness among Americans that the U.S. is the only country that has ever withheld money from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for political reasons and to… …

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