Word: brass
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Wolf, 56, is able to branch out like this because--in a business in which producers tend to see themselves as the visionaries and see the network brass as the businesspeople--he runs L&O like a CEO. Unlike such micromanagers as The Practice's David E. Kelley or The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, he delegates heavily to his staff. And because his shows emphasize stories over character development, each actor is replaceable; L&O has run since 1990 without Friends-style salary increases or creative exhaustion. "Other shows eventually descend into a kind of soap opera," says Dragnet...
...Male or female, man or child, he sounds great on the early RCA sides. The record company brass was frantic that Elvis' first session produced only "Heartbreak Hotel," a slow 12-bar blues. But he knew that - with a verse requiring some robust tenor work, a chorus in the "lonely" baritone register and a cool segue allowing for sexy filigree work - the song would be a swell showcase. He also knew its melodrama and eroticism in the song, because he'd been there when he performed...
...bookcases, wall coverings and natural and artificial lighting—right down to the brass fixtures—were all designed by Sargent to enhance the experience of viewing “Triumph of Religion.” The restoration staff will also work to restore the lighting so that the murals may be viewed just as Sargent planned...
Just before all of you sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, Ray Tellier had his Last Supper. Tellier, the Columbia football coach who just completed his sixth consecutive losing season, was fired by the Lions athletic department brass last Tuesday...
...Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching to splash around in alcohol, next month New York City's Just Calm Down...