Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience notice them for the first time...
...sure, these are different studios from the one-man autocracies that used to welcome creative geniuses like France's Jean Renoir with lavish contracts and then crush their talent with assembly-line production techniques. The old dinosaurs in the corner offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily...
Parrot fed Garrity with the exact same pass 30 seconds later, after Harvard goalie Billy Diercks stopped a strong B.U. offensive threat. Garrity beat Decker and surprised McCann with a quick shot into the upper left corner...
Jack Turco picked up a blocked pass from Smith at the blue line, skated in and passed to Johnson, whose shot from the corner of the crease bounced off McCann into the nets...
Mueller's tally was a work of art. Mark stickhandled through the B.U. defense and passed back to Smith at the point. Smith skimmed the puck in to Mueller, who picked up the goal's lower left corner with a deadeye shot from six feet...