Word: bigelow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighbors, who are mostly residents of Bigelow Street, are objecting to the planned removal of green space to make room for an expanded parking lot and the installment of air conditioning units behind City Hall, Maus said...
Liem, who is also Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Icthyology, sought to use his expertise in marine life to solve Dunster's insect infestation. His personal request: "I wish I had ant-eating fish...
...good. No one is likely to confuse Kathryn Bigelow's sleek thriller Point Break, which improbably but effectively combined cops and surfers (and grossed $40 million last summer), with Randa Haines' The Doctor (late summer's surprise hit), about an arrogant surgeon who becomes a befuddled cancer patient in his own hospital and as a result humanizes his practice. Says Bigelow, who directed a cleverly variant vampire movie (Near Dark) and one about a gun-loving policewoman (Blue Steel): "I like to make films that are provocative, that can rattle your cage." Haines, who also directed Children of a Lesser...
...according to Bigelow, the accumulation of contacts. "What's been achieved for women," she says, "is access." As the Hollywood cliche goes, it's a relationship business, and all directors, male and female, need what Silver calls godfathers, studio executives who are sympathetic to their work. "Younger studio executives are more responsive to women. They have girlfriends, sisters, wives who work, and they are simply better attuned to the problems of working women, which includes the problems of women directors...
That squares with the experiences of Donoghue's colleagues. "It would be Pollyanna of me to say that sexism doesn't exist," Randa Haines comments. "But I've been very lucky. I haven't faced any real discrimination." Nor has Bigelow, who says, "I've never felt I've been discriminated against. There's been great support from the men I work with...