Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its casual tradition, Kleiler expressed interest in bringing the Rear Window to a more permanent home, on one screen in a multi-screen complex for example. However, the large rental fees asked by larger houses to utilize their equipment (as much as $400 per night) make such plans unfeasible at the moment. The organization's limited budget would necessitate a more mainstream repertory program to pay the fees of such venues. Also, Kleiler remains committed to the Rear Window's more or less permanent home in Brookline, providing alternative programming for the area at the Brookline Arts Center...
After the Romantic era, itself complex and varied enough, there is really no name under which to group the various composers whose works have stayed in the active repertoire. In France, there were, as in painting, the impressionists, including Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Chausson and Franck...
...with hand-held cameras) set ) it apart from anything else on TV. Its cops were not macho superheroes but flawed men and women with interesting lives both on and off the beat. The show's dramatic structure (copied by such successors as St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law) was unusually complex, interweaving a dozen or so major characters and several ongoing plots each week. If the comic interludes were often heavy- handed and the drama sometimes soapy, Hill Street nevertheless defined "quality television" for much of the '80s and was a key building block in NBC's climb from last place...
Today the group is putting the finishing touches on the Hoagie, built for a family out to express itself in a big way. Besides the twelve-room, 10,000- sq.-ft. house, the complex includes a separate guesthouse and separate caretaker's house (both shaped like smaller hoagies), maid's quarters and a swimming pool. There's even a gift-wrapping room."Hey, don't look at me," says Badanes. "The guy's got a lot of kids and a lot of birthday parties." But right now, the dilemma is over what car grille to order for the fireplace...
...most fateful exercise of judicial discretion is the one that starts with the words "I sentence you . . ." Whether to slap the wrist or slam the cell door is a complex and partly subjective decision in which the particulars of the crime, the history of the culprit and the disposition of the judge all play a part. No wonder, then, that a stickup may draw anything from hard time to probation and defense lawyers maneuver to get their cases heard by judges known to go easy...