Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide and tippy with an easel-type stand; the wind blows it down; tiny gold footballs are scratched, buttons chip, pennants wrinkle and smudge. I get a commission: 10% of what I sell." In the fall of 1967 the family moved to Putney, where the young father...
...history. It lasted 50 days and forced the cancellation of 713 games. The players lost an estimated $28 million in salaries. Even after collecting $44 million in insurance benefits, the owners stood to lose some $72 million -although their $15 million strike fund, collected from a percentage of gate receipts, should ease the sting. Within hours of the settlement, team managers and officials were manning telephones, waking up players and telling them to report for workouts right away. By Saturday afternoon, ballparks across the country were alive with the blessed whack of hardwood hitting horsehide. The first ball...
...horse-racing parlance, this musical has shown "early foot." Breaking out of the gate in April without an official opening, Falsettos has been S.R.O. ever since, and moves to a larger theater in late August. Broadway producers have lined the aisles, and, at 29, Composer-Lyricist William Finn is a mini-celebrity...
...cocaine may be taking its toll. Authoritative reports persist of recording sessions that have to be scrapped because of spaced-out musicians, and of movie shoots that are disrupted because members of the cast or crew are under the influence. According to a member of the Heaven's Gate crew, thousands of dollars' worth of coke was being sent up to the Montana location from Hollywood regularly from July to November...
...prices. "I make films that generate emotions," he says, adding that the challenge is to "make them well enough so that they work at 51% effort. If the movie is made at 100% effort, it is indulgent." And likely to suffer unbearable cost overruns. "Cimino made Heaven's Gate at 150%." Moviegoers, says the frugal Lucas, will buy a weakish special effect or even stock footage as long as their emotions are engaged. "If it gets dreary, then they notice," he says. In Raiders, only sharp-eyed cineasts will know that a shot of a DC-3 flying...