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...what was all encompassing on the page would have been all confusing on the screen. To the rescue came two other former soldiers from the raj, Scriptwriter Ken Taylor and Sir Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada and the project's prime mover. Their no-nonsense solution was to chop up yard-length segments of wallpaper, pin them on the walls of a large room and sort out a chronological story line by writing an outline of events on each square. In the process, they preserved nearly all the equivocal situations and ragged-edged characters that are often more...
John Bonica, 67, onetime professional wrestler and a prime mover in establishing the study of pain as a science: "If I wasn't as busy as I am, I would be a completely disabled...
...design is perhaps the glass-sheathed escalator bank grafted onto the museum's north wall, overlooking the sculpture garden, which distantly recalls the glass escalator tube on the face of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But whereas the Pompidou's tube is a mere people mover, MOMA's moving staircases work in a celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli...
Money was certainly the prime mover behind Irsay's fly-by-night relocation. He departed owing the city of Baltimore $2.3 million in back taxes, but Indianapolis was willing to overlook his credit history; they have renegotiated a large bank loan for his at favorable terms, and are promising the Colts $7 million a year from ticket sales, preseason TV rights, and regular season radio rights, Indianapolis stands to profit as well--Mayor William Hudnut estimated that the franchise will bring the city $21 million a year and give it invaluable national media exposure...
...Heard on the Street" column of the Wall Street Journal (circ. 2 million) is always tucked onto the bottom of the paper's penultimate page. But its out-of-the-way position belies its importance as a mover of markets. A gossipy grab bag of investment tips, spot analysis and rumors about companies, the daily feature can drive stocks sharply up or down. Last week, though, the column itself was hot news on Wall Street. In an extraordinary front-page story and related articles, the Wall Street Journal disclosed details of what is shaping up as probably the most...