Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the majority of people I worked with do not lounge decadently behind a desk all day or drive expensive, decadent cars and take even more expensive, decadent drugs, nearly all of them expressed a strong desire to do so if they could afford...
...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...
...film called Luxo Jr. goes even further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
...author of Heartburn was born knowing about star quality and its discontents; she is the daughter of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, who put funny endearments into the mouths of Tracy and Hepburn (Desk Set) and adapted Carousel for Hollywood. In Mike Nichols, Ephron fille has found the perfect director for her skewering humor. Once he invigorated cabaret comedy as half of the Nichols and May team; now he orchestrates the romantic abrasions of Nicholson-Streep and the nifty cameos of Steven Hill as Rachel's flighty dad and John Wood as a nightmare Alistair Cooke. Generous and precise, Nichols...
...anything until it got dark. Then we came to an old building that didn't have a real name. It just said HOTEL on a little bitty sign. It was real pretty inside. Filled with antiques. The hotel didn't have a restaurant, but the nice lady at the desk sent us next door to an old house up on a hill behind some shrubs. It didn't have any sign at all. Inside was a big room with lots of real old furniture. It was just beautiful. All the tables had crystal bowls filled with roses, and the food...