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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Robert Benton recalls her work that day on the set with amazement: "We must have shot that scene from seven in the morning until six at night, over and over again. First in closeup, then a medium shot, finally a long one. Later in the day, we shot only Dustin reacting to her on the stand. During this last take, all 30 people in the room were facing Dustin. I happened to be watching Meryl, as well. She had the same intensity as she had when she first did the scene...
Next came Vassar and the recognition that this wholesome young woman possessed an eerie gift. Clinton Atkinson, a director on the college staff, found her acting "hair raising, absolutely mind boggling. I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting; she really taught herself." After graduating with a major in drama, she joined a small repertory company in Vermont and then won a three-year scholarship to the Yale School of Drama. Her classwork won ever higher praise. "Whenever she did a scene," says Director Robert Lewis, who was a professor there at the time, "you wished that...
Meryl had auditioned in New York occasionally while still at Yale. When she moved to the city, directors scrambled to use her. Her first professional appearance was at Lincoln Center in Joseph Papp's production of Trelawney of the Wells. Next she played in a program of two one-act plays and did the seemingly impossible: she became both a slovenly, bovine Southerner in Tennessee Williams' Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and a thin, sexy secretary in Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. Says Director Arvin Brown: "The audience didn't realize that...
Quality sells partly because so many women have gained paying jobs. Out in the working world, earning their own money, they have become more discerning, demanding shoppers. Another major factor is that many consumers are moving into a group that Stephen Frankfurt, director of creative planning for Kenyon & Eckhardt, has labeled the "maturity market." They are the folks in the 34% of U.S. households that are headed by adults aged 45 to 64. They have the highest family income in the nation. More important, they have worked hard for their wealth and do not want to waste it on tinsel...
Even contamination from DDT, which some scientists had predicted would take hundreds of years to be washed out of the Great Lakes, is only 10% of what it was ten years ago. Says Wayland Swain, director of the EPA's Large Lakes Research Laboratory in Grosse He, Mich...