Word: designer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Limited though the discussion may have been, the option of sending in U.S. troops has been considered in the Government-but not favorably. There are contingency planners on both sides of the Potomac River who would have dearly loved to design an American military intervention to prop up the Shah or seize the Iranian oilfields, but they lacked the pretext that they would be protecting Iran from outside interference. "Hell," says one military official, "we would have been the outside interference...
...unfailing instinct for what women would regard as glamorous?deciding every design detail of every package and firing legions of aides and admen...
Some analysts and even company insiders wonder whether Revlon can maintain creativity in an atmosphere of tight control. Bergerac insists that it can. To him, creativity is not a matter of sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike, but of striving against deadlines to design products, packages and ads for carefully targeted markets...
...Minsky 's, Friedkin devotes great care to the ambience of Brink's.The production design by Dean Tavoularis (Godfather II) creates an almost dreamlike portrait of the ethnic tenements, greasy dives and teeming alleys that define the heroes' oldtime Boston underground. There is a jolly background score by Richard Rodney Bennett, as well as appropriate quotations from Walter Winchell and Movietone News. Devotees of Friedkin's most recent films may be shocked to discover that Brink's is utterly devoid of gore and brutality...
Graduate courses offer the other link between the two groups. Undergraudates may take courses in all programs in the graduate school except acting and directing. The programs open to them include the areas of technical design, set design, dramaturgy, dramatic criticism and playwriting. Brustein explains that undergraudates are excluded from the acting and directing classes because the intensive level of instruction and the time commitment involved makes it practical only for full-time graduate students. Graduate actors and directors spend 25 hours a week in class practicing. "Undergraduates would feel out of it. The intense professionalization we have here...