Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That blunt assessment of the dangers of the ill-starred Firestone 500 steel-belted radial was sent to the company's top management by Thomas A. Robertson, Firestone's director of development, in September 1973, one year after production started. Despite his memo, others like it and an epidemic of auto accidents apparently caused by the tire's failing, Firestone over the next five years went ahead to make and sell nearly 24 million 500s at about $50 each. All along, the company insisted that the tire had no safety defects...
...company so far has replaced about 3 million tires, or roughly 40% of those estimated to be still in use, and NHTSA Director Joan Claybrook has charged that it is moving too slowly. Says Frank Berndt, the agency's chief counsel: "The recall has been very disappointing...
...Yorker (perhaps even more as a Brooklynite who observed the "pulsating" panorama of Manhattan from the opposite bank of the East River), Allen captured the sense of urban movement by executing 90 per cent of his shots using a panning, tracking and dollying camera. Assisted by his director of photography, Gordon Willis, Allen created scores of dynamic long takes penetrating the New York City streets from different angles. Accompanying the characters, their camera embraces a characteristic part of the environment while maintaining a compositional coherence of the moving image. The background in these takes persistently changes in design and perspective...
...Woody Allen continues to nourish and expand the cinematic aspects of his work, thus proving that the comedy genre is in no way inferior to other acknowledged "artistic" and "intellectual" genres of the sound cinema, he will become not only the foremost American director, but will as well join that select circle of exceptional film actors/auteurs...
...Cambridge City Council supported the injunction by a vote of six to three, despite a warning from the director of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), the group in charge of the extension, that the delay caused by an injunction might kill the entire project...