Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success has not come without a fight. In the collaborative medium of network TV, Bochco is known as a tough and sometimes abrasive battler for his standards. Colleagues describe him as cool and self-confident, stubborn when dealing with superiors and direct with underlings who do not deliver the goods. "I know I can be difficult," Bochco concedes. "But you can't do work at this level without being demanding of yourself and others...
...Film Historian Lewis Jacobs saluted Walt Disney as the "virtuoso of the film medium." Twenty years later, this Hollywood Paderewski was playing mostly Muzak. His studio's artistic growth had been stunted, by both the | demand for new product in two mediums and the creeping conservatism that afflicts almost any burgeoning corporation. Yet Disney was always a visionary entrepreneur; he still had magic to do. In the 1950s Disney made three business decisions that would sustain his company until the Eisner years. Decades later, they would profoundly affect the movie business...
...office poison (Innerspace, Made in Heaven). Moviegoers want their nightmares straight these days, with guns and badges attached. A pity, because there is life left in the comedy of the supernatural. The form can liberate narrative wit and design ingenuity; it encourages filmmakers to plunder all the medium's resources, to create something that can exist only in the movies. Check out, for instance, Beetlejuice's vision of the afterlife -- it's hell as a strangled bureaucracy. In the waiting room, where the exit signs read NO EXIT, the dead still carry scars of their demise. A magician's assistant...
...newest discs take advantage of the medium's vast capacity for storing pictures and sounds as well as words. LaserScan Systems of Miami sells a CD that displays maps showing the location of 520,000 real estate properties in Broward County, Fla. British Airways has put the entire maintenance manual for a Boeing 757 on CD, so its repair people can find the illustration of a missing part with a few taps on a keyboard. Soon, travel agents who use American Airlines' SABRE reservation system will be able to show customers photographs of vacation spots and hotel rooms...
...arthritis. For all the glut of awards, though, the Pulitzer Prize remains the one trophy able to bestow a career-boosting mystique that glows past retirement on a newspaper reporter's resume. Like the Oscar, a Pulitzer is good for business, instantly improving the reputation of a small or medium-size paper or ratifying the status of a titan. In short, it is a glory to fight for, and journalists...