Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UConn, meanwhile, continued to click offensively...
...colormakers see only one color when they talk about their potential market: green. Since copyrights have expired on thousands of old black-and-white movies, they can take out new copyrights on the colorized versions of the same films. Boasts Earl Click, chairman of Hal Roach Studios: "I could take 200 A-l pictures, colorize them, and turn them into solid gold." He estimates that a $30 million investment might yield a billion dollars in profit within 15 years...
Snowdon has his own reasons to be anxious with this kind of work, and his nerves don't relax with the last click of the shutter. There is still the fear that the film might get lost, ruined by airport X rays, spoiled in the laboratory. Worst of all, there's "the dread of opening the brown envelope when the pictures come back. You know they are not going to be good. The only time you like a picture is before you see it." -By RichardLacayo. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London
...Thorn Birds), producer of the more than $6 million extravaganza, ran afoul of an overweening zeal on the part of an employee well down the ladder of power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important to us as the opening ceremonies are to you." Some mean...
...woman from their party for President. Hardly less important, though, is that men have clung to the machinery of politics. Various political-action committees donated $35 million to the last congressional elections, and $31 million of that went to incumbents. Of the little available to challengers, women got 7%. Click. -ByOttoFriedrich