Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty, as well as granting leaves, salary increases and other benefits to the promising young hotshot. This is good first step, particularly if the posts are allocated to some of the harder pressed departments like Visual and Environmental Studies. But Spence should make sure that these goodies don't direct the junior professors towards research at the expense of teaching...
...sensitive Laurel & Hardy duet for the 1980s?Hardly. Moore and Ronis have the ingredients oftruly important theater artists. They can act,write and direct with proficiency. In the view ofmany of their peers, their success, even in thecapricious entertainment industry, is practicallya foregone conclusion. The only question iswhether they'll become the Sam Shepards, RobertWilsons or Meryl Streeps of the next generation...
Unlike Moore, Ronis has spent a great deal ofhis time directing, and he vows to pursuedirection in the future. Of the two, Ronis is morecommitted to being a director. "I definitely wantto do both act and direct," he says. "One hasreinforced the other. I'm definitely a betterdirector because I act and a better actor becauseI direct." Moore says he ultimately wants to workin film...
...manholes. Neither executive has worked for any company other than AT&T. Over the years, the two men have adopted different styles of management. Subordinates describe Brown as a reserved and somewhat austere boss who tends to delegate authority. Olson, on the other hand, is said to be more direct and personable. He describes himself as "by nature, a hands-on manager...
...first time that Taipei had taken part in direct talks with Peking on any subject since 1949, when the mainland came under Communist control. And to some observers it signaled an unprecedented flexibility on the part of the Nationalist Chinese government. Under the accord, a crew from C.A.A.C. flew the plane to Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread...