Word: maker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out 1,312 Mirage III and Mirage 5 jet fighters (of which two-thirds were exported). Its export sales of warplanes, including the Mirage F1, the Alpha Jet and the Jaguar (built jointly with the British Aircraft Corp.), are unsurpassed by any other European military-aircraft maker...
King Pong. Nolan Bushnell, 34, saw a future in video computer games. In 1976 his four-year-old company, Atari Inc., the maker of Pong and other electronic entertainments, was sold to Warner Communications Inc. for $28 million; Bushnell remains chairman of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company with a six-figure salary...
...Lucas. "He doesn't really work a lot with his actors or tell them a lot. But he constructs his scenes so specifically, or narrowly-like a railroad track -that everything comes out more or less the way he sees it." Coppola considers Lucas "a pure film maker. He really only wants to put on film the things he loves. He has few pretensions about making 'great films' or 'great art,' and consequently he comes closer than most. I think, though, that it's both sad and unnecessary that he suffers so much while...
...small casts. Star Wars employed 900 people and forced him to become what he loathes: a big-time Hollywood director. "I found the experience excruciatingly painful," he says, "and I've discovered what I knew all along: I am not a film director. I'm a film maker. A film director is somebody who directs people-large operations. I like to sit down behind a camera and shoot pretty pictures and then cut them together and watch the magic come as I combine images and tell stories." The director, he goes on, is like a general sitting...
Beth met Bruce Cambell in a section freshmen year and he remained one of her closest friends. He owned a coffee maker, she owned an electric typewriter and they supported one another during their first traumatic, snow-covered reading period. She hovered on the edge of falling in love with him since then. He knew it, he subtly encouraged it but he never reciprocated. "We have a great friendship," he often told her. "Why jeopardize...