Word: creators
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angry Wolves. One of the gut issues continues to be white-collar jobs for project residents. Dr. Jack Geiger, the center's creator, points out that pumping large amounts of cash-the current budget is $1.4 million-into a desperately poor area is risky. "It's like throwing a pound of meat to 50 angry wolves," he says. "They'll kill each other to get a bite." But racial pride and sensitivity about the condescending attitudes of some white professionals are also crucial factors. Gloria Nelms, a black former psychiatric counselor at Columbia Point who is among...
...such American ex-TV directors as John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet), the result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every art, encourages mere thrill-seekers and poetic poseurs. The real challenge is to create an artificial framework sufficiently analogous to the hard reality in which its creator lives to make a philosophic statement artfully: or, as is my bias (and Troell's), to see a historical subject so purely that poetry arises as the culmination of psychological, intellectual and moral developments in the artist's perceived experience...
...Joan Ganz Cooney, 42, creator of TV's Sesame Street, is an unabashed nonexpert in banking who nonetheless considers herself a proper choice for a directorship of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust. Chairman John R. Bunting, she says, "knows that I can't comment with intelligence on most financial issues, but I can comment on issues of social responsibility" -including the bank's services to the poor and the elderly. Mrs. Cooney has addressed meetings of the bank's women employees and sees herself "as a symbol of good faith on the part...
...snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...
...harbor. I needed coffee." Like so many would-be Hemingway heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been both...