Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also hilarious cameos by David Dukes, as a vulgar film director, and by Broderick Crawford, as himself...
...make an angry challenge of this aspect of the proposed FCC ruling in Congress. Quite as important as the effect of the proposed ruling is the shift in FCC philosophy that it indicates. The FCC had always been eager to shield local broadcasters from cable competition. But Philip Verveer, director of the FCC cable bureau, now justifies the proposed new ruling with a rhetorical question: "Why interfere with consumer preference...
...British management. It is at least arguable that management's perpetuation of a "Them and Us" syndrome through a whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories go for the easy option of making the unions scapegoats, they risk a confrontation besides which the miners' strike...
...Tang Pei-sung, a onetime doctoral fellow in botany and plant physiology, leaned back on the couch in the hotel lobby and took a sip of his bourbon and Seven-up. "I'm so pleased to come back to the United States," the director of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, half-said and half-sighed...
Allen remains potent only when he weds his old instinct for incongruous humor to his new skill as a director. Several times in Manhattan he accomplishes this, points to promising possibilities in his use of language and the camera, and creates memorable images. Allen and Keaton wandering across the lunar surface in the planetarium, discussing their affair, hold our attention, but not the same couple silhouetted before an empty screen a la Bergman...