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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitutes little on which to build a legend. Quite possibly, Crenshaw will be just another of rock's firecrackers, sparkling brilliantly for a few seconds and then disappearing forever. But his album bears too much promise, indeed too much immediate confirmation, to dismiss Crenshaw as a flash in the pan...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Marshall Arts | 9/25/1982 | See Source »

...Janet Gaynor, 73, winner of the first Oscar for Best Actress (1929), in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney; and Mary Martin, 68, star of Broadway's original South Pacific and TV's first Peter Pan, in good condition with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis and a punctured lung; after a vehicular accident; in San Francisco. Gaynor and her husband Paul Gregory, 61, and Martin and her pressagent, Ben Washer, 76, were riding in a taxi when they were struck broadside by a van. Washer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 20, 1982 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...happens, he is back in the Oriole clubhouse on this day to conduct chapel services. Weaver is praying for Lefthander Scott McGregor's sore arm to improve. "Or let whomever I choose to take Scottie's place-another damned decision-get the job done." When these decisions pan out, isn't this a pleasure that he will miss? "Momentarily gratifying," he grumps. "But the only real satisfaction is winning it all." He pauses. "Only did that once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From Raspberries to Tomatoes | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...they just stared: the space creature was cut out of the picture. "It was a disaster," Spielberg recalls. "It looked worse than the super-8 movies I make myself." Says Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001 lost the introduction of the star child in its wondrous last sequence to some bad panning and scanning in 1977: "It's a very unsatisfactory technique. It destroyed the compositional elements and often looks like a TV football game when the camera follows the man without the ball and has to pan back to pick up the key action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Shapes of Things That Were | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Peter Keane, director of quality control for Home Box Office, admits that panning and scanning is "a series of compromises," but maintains that "the film redirects you. There is always a center." Says Tom McCarthy, senior vice president, post production, at Columbia Pictures: "Panning and scanning involves creative decisions." Unfortunately, those decisions are not made by the creators of the movie. Yet Richard Wolfe, 20th Century-Fox's vice president of engineering and video technology, insists, "My experience is that directors are not interested in the pan-and-scan transfer session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Shapes of Things That Were | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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