Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farrell and Minkus stormed to a 6-0 win in the first set at third doubles. The duo played a great game at the net--displaying some rapid-fire volleys...
...made 29 films, including Oscar winners Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986 English producer David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures, vowing to make better films more cheaply and with less reliance on big-name stars. Following that formula, Puttnam put the Columbia name on such films as The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987. But in his pursuit of reform, Puttnam alienated much of the Hollywood establishment. A year after he was hired, Puttnam left Columbia. Now home in Wiltshire, he is independently producing a series of movies. Bruised...
...standards, the expectations. The audience lives on a diet of television that is something like McDonald's hamburgers -- nobody asks how nutritious they are; they taste good. Without any lack of gratitude, I remember thinking after Chariots of Fire won the Academy Award that it was the kind of film audiences should expect every single week and shouldn't be accounted the best film of the year. I only became comfortable when Killing Fields won. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I believed that taken together the two films deserved an Oscar...
...Republic. Two years ago, Mark Salzman wrote Iron and Silk, a recollection of his years as an English teacher in Changsha. Next spring he will produce a novel, tentatively titled Journey to the West, that mixes Chinese myth and actuality. And next month will bring The Great Black Dragon Fire, by veteran journalist Harrison Salisbury. The fire was not fiction; it occurred in 1987, and it burned a Manchurian forest "so large that, like China's Great Wall, it could have been seen from the moon...
...divisions will slash Drexel's payroll of 9,000 employees by about one-third. In a candid statement, Drexel said "adverse publicity" about its legal problems had helped drive it from the retail market. Earlier this month the company settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit by agreeing to fire its indicted junk-bond czar, Michael Milken, and submit to intense Government supervision...