Word: budget
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...Chicago. Nor, as stage cognoscenti might suppose, is it in a thriving regional center like Minneapolis, home of the Guthrie, or a festival city like Ashland, site of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. The champion -- as measured cumulatively by number of productions and performances, size of troupe, total audience and budget -- is located in an unpretentious town in the Canadian province of Ontario, about 90 miles from the skyscrapers of Toronto. It is a place that began with scarcely any claim to cultural status, except that it was called Stratford, and its river was dubbed the Avon...
Martin Scorsese's first achievement in The Last Temptation of Christ is to strip the biblical epic of its encrusted sanctimony and show biz. He has re- created -- in Morocco, and on a pinchpenny budget of $6.5 million -- a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class...
...order finally to make Tucker, he formed a partnership with his sometime protege, George Lucas, a producer gifted in what the director lacks: story sense and budget sense. The result is a film consistent narratively, confident stylistically and abounce with the quaint quality that animated both the hero and his times, something we used to call...
...what I said" -- the incident gave yet another negative twist to the 1988 campaign. It also suggested that Reagan, unless carefully managed, could wind up hurting Vice President George Bush while trying to help in the fall election. Last week Reagan played politics in dealing with both the defense budget and the plant-closings bill. With Bush trailing by as much as 18 points in the polls, the campaign has plainly turned into a game of hardball, and the G.O.P.'s most seasoned hurler has taken the mound. "Suddenly," said a Dukakis aide, "Reagan has been much more forcefully deployed...
Just because today's issues may be more "diffuse" than in the past and can't be as easily reduced to three-word political slogans doesn't mean that we should ignore what the candidates are saying on AIDS or the budget deficit and focus exclusively on Jackson's apparent meglomania, Dole's "darkness" or Dukakis' stubborness. If Sheehy really wants someone with a "flawless character" like Ozzie Nelson or Ward Cleaver to run for president (which is the impression she gives), why doesn't she just...