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...executives selected new fonts called Utopia and Minion for the headlines and the text respectively, replacing the more traditional Times and Transitional fonts...
...Kenya recently, Halmi hired a group of Masai tribesmen as extras. Just as the scene in which they were to participate had begun shooting, a busload of American tourists stopped to ogle and photograph the tribesmen, angering the actors-for-a-day and delaying production. Rather than deploy a minion to settle the matter, Halmi approached the bus in his Hummer, "to make like Arnold Schwarzenegger," he gleefully explains, and proceeded to bluff the sightseers into thinking they were courting unspeakable peril if they didn't make peace with the natives. Goodwill could be rendered quickly, Halmi decreed...
Consequently, Adobe sells many copies of Robert Slimbach's recent "Minion" (the face in which this text is set), a neo-classical type to the mass market, but alternative type foundries such as Emigre and fontshop International survive as well. Experimental typographers, having given up on the traditional, roman letterform, base new on photographs and Dizzy Gillespie's handwriting. The 1980s and '90s have produced a dazzling number of new types...
Jean (Cullen Gerst) and his Kristin (Maile Meloy) serve as Miss Julie's two minion lovers. The play begins with a pseudo-sex scene that makes the audience feel a bit uncomfortable and distracts from the dialogue, but fortunately does not last long...
...Personally, I don't agree with their agenda," says Donald F. Seeman '89-'90, a Hillel member and chair of the orthodox minion. "But it's important that there be a group through which Jewish students with those political views can be represented within the Jewish community...