Word: choreographers
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President Clinton signed an executive order that derails the Houston-based Conoco's lucrative deal to develop two Persian Gulf oil fields for Iran through a foreign subsidiary. The move, which TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says came after Clinton's weekend efforts to "choreograph" a graceful withdrawal by the firm, bars any U.S. citizens or companies from signing oil development contracts with the Iranian government. Clinton acted to reinforce a U.S. crackdown on Iran's support of international terrorism, on its efforts to undermine Middle East peace and Tehran's possible development of nuclear weapons. "The problem...
NASA has tried to choreograph every move, but these missions never go entirely as planned. "As we know when we do things for the first time in space, things can go wrong," says Swiss crew member Claude Nicollier, an astronaut from the European Space Agency who will be controlling a 50-ft.-long mechanical arm that will extend outward from Endeavour and move spacewalkers around the Hubble. Planners remain concerned about how fatigued the astronauts will become during their long stints working on the satellite. To be on the safe side, NASA added an extra day to the mission...
Graney claims that the paintings of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, as well as the writings of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett of Shasta Abbey, inspired her to choreograph "Faith." Perhaps because of these visual and intellectual sources of inspiration, "Faith" seems more like a procession of portraits and ideas than a display of physical ability. Ultimately, the mood of the piece is so stagnant that Graney's greater message is lost...
...however, among the vast majority of mindless "cammers," a rare but growing breed of dedicated enthusiasts who are not content simply to point and shoot. Weighed down with auxiliary lights, remote microphones and jury- rigged dollies, they don't just videotape weddings (or birthdays or bar mitzvahs), they choreograph them. Then, back in their basement studios, they process their footage through an array of cutting-edge technology to produce video that is just as polished as the best seen on national TV -- and for a fraction of the cost...
...market an array of buttons, T shirts, pins, decals, posters, videos and banners that bear the logo of a proud galleon slicing through the waves, its sail emblazoned with a giant cross. Kits will be sold that instruct local administrators on how to place ads, write press releases and choreograph a month-by-month promotional campaign. Says Sister Ann Dominic Roach, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston: "This is not business as usual...