Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential obstacle to the largest media merger ever, the planned combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, was cleared away last week when Warner settled a four-year dispute with its largest shareholder, Chris-Craft Industries. Since the company holds some 15% of Warner shares, Chris-Craft could have complicated the nearly $20 billion Time-Warner merger. Chris-Craft might have done so by delaying the completion of the merger, as it did last year in Warner's acquisition of Lorimar Telepictures. Both Chris-Craft and Warner made concessions in reaching an agreement to no longer disagree. As part...
...learned more about movie craft from making the Indiana Jones films than I did from E.T. or Jaws," says Spielberg, who won't take on Indy a fourth time. "And now I feel as if I've graduated from the college of Cliff- Hanger U. I ought to have paid tuition." Spielberg's camera style neither misses a trick nor reveals how it's done. See how he cues the change of a Zeppelin's course by the shadow scampering across a cocktail glass; watch a motif of cigarette lighters carry complicity from one character to another. Like a fine...
Ford thinks the way Bogie talked, and he takes an old-fashioned movie star's pleasure in the craft of filmmaking. "I love to work," he says. "I like doing something difficult and complicated. It's like setting yourself in a maze and learning the maze so you always come out in the right place at the right time. I'm a technical actor. For me, acting is part intellectual, part mechanical. It's being in control of your mind and body at the same time. The emotions you show may be spontaneous, but the bricks have to be carefully...
...best boat name award went to Wisconsin's heavyweight craft: "Carnage...
...must craft a political settlement that will satisfy not only the warring Cambodian factions but also their foreign sponsors: the Soviet Union and Viet Nam on one side, China and the U.S. on the other. While Hun Sen made a number of gestures toward the Prince, he still refused to allow the Khmer Rouge into the new government before elections; Sihanouk insisted it must be tried. Officially, the U.S. backs a pre-election four-party coalition that would include the Khmer Rouge, though no one wants to see them back in control...