Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter Cameron, a college dropout but a graduate of Roger Corman's famous schlock shop, where directors as divergent as Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese had done their early professional work. There he also met his future wife, who was Corman's executive assistant. Cameron left in 1982 to direct his first feature, Piranha II. By 1983 Cameron and Hurd had written an original script called The Terminator, and Alien's proprietors were impressed with it. They called Cameron in to discuss another project, about which they could not reach agreement. Before he left, however, Producer David Giler threw...
...back-to-back suc- cesses made the pair a force to be reckoned with and probably led the studio to let them produce and direct Aliens. Certainly the film would not have been so effective without the experience they gained on The Terminator. Cameron developed his directorial manner in that film -- the low-angled camera, always moving with the action, never allowing the viewers to draw back into objectivity; the quick cutting that never lets them draw a deep breath. Says an admiring Scorsese: "What makes him interesting is his sense of surprise. Every scene builds on the last, then...
...dangerous race toward the abyss" in his cheerful welcome to some 70 nations, not including Israel or 1988 Olympics host-designate South Korea. "They dodged the bullet on Israel," said Robert Wussler, executive vice president of Turner Broadcasting, "using this excuse, that excuse. They were much more direct on South Korea. They just said no." With so much goodwill in force, it certainly seemed like the Olympics...
...they allowed audiences to see a satirical work called Rubik's Cube that lampooned various aspects of Chinese life. Faced with criticism on so many fronts, reformers launched counterattacks to keep their revolution rolling. Premier Zhao Ziyang's State Council issued new regulations urging plant managers to establish direct links with their customers and suppliers in order to skirt the ponderous Chinese bureaucracy. Peking also promoted public debate over whether state enterprises should issue stock and how to encourage investment capital...
...Smith, a Dayton-area electronics whiz, dubbed his creation Fuzzbuster I. The theory behind the device is simple. Police radar sets bounce a microwave beam off an approaching car or truck in order to measure the speed at which the vehicle is moving. The target must be in a direct line of sight with the radar transmitter before an accurate reading can be taken. The radar emissions, however, can be detected by a simple electronic receiving device from a distance of a mile or more. When a Fuzzbuster-style receiver picks up such waves, it typically emits a high-pitched...