Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jumped a dozen meatmen to protest livestock controls and price rollbacks. The American way, said one feeder angrily, was through the law of supply & demand. Snapped Di Salle: "It's called the law of supply & demand when the price is going up, but everyone hollers for supports when the price goes down...
...only because I was simultaneously operating [Manhattan's] Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about the demand for superior films. I am a pessimist, because I have invested money in them...
...trade, these techniques are known as animation, stop motion and live action. Now most sponsors demand all three at once. "They want every technique used in a Hollywood film packed into a one-minute commercial," complains Film-Maker Robert Lawrence of Jerry Fairbanks, Inc. "It makes it tough for us and sometimes leaves televiewers bug-eyed." But sponsors' enthusiasm for filmed commercials has resulted in an $8,000,000-a-year business for Manhattan alone. More than, 300 filmmakers, many of them operating on shoestrings, are scrambling for a share of the new jackpot...
...field. The second point may be debated for years to come. Unlike most conductors, Koussy made hard work of reading scores; his conducting technique sometimes confused musicians; his beat was often erratic. Yet, in a less obvious facet of technique, Koussy shone like a perfect gem. His constant, tyrannical demand for tonal perfection made the Boston one of the world's three or four greatest orchestras; where poetry lay hidden in music, Koussy found...
Last Word. The explanation did not satisfy the foreign press corps in Teheran. In a body, it assembled at the Foreign Ministry to demand specifics. Lamely, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatimi quoted excerpts from Daily Express editorials (which Delmer did not write), referred vaguely to a supposedly inaccurate Reuters' report, sternly added that Iran has no need to tolerate "insults and lies." New York Timesman Michael Clark, informal spokesman for the group, snapped right back with a lecture on freedom of the press. Said he:"The reflections with which we have just been gratified are more generally heard in police...