Word: parker
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...Flashdance looks like a 95-minute "video" for MTV, the cable music channel, it should be no surprise. For one thing, Director Adrian Lyne is another in the long list of British mannerists (Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson) to have graduated from TV commercials, and to bring their techniques and attention span with them. For another, the film's "production numbers" were designed, or at least marketed, with MTV in mind. Paramount began running two-minute commercials on MTV a full three weeks before the movie opened. "The MTV audience likes music, movement, dancing," notes Weaver. "We hoped...
...story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried in the fifth paragraph: "Are they real?" Said Newsweek Editor Maynard Parker, who supervised the package: "The advertising department had earlier deadlines than ours, but I do not feel that the ads misrepresent what is in the magazine...
Aggravating the controversy was Stern's angry charge that Newsweek, after withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will...
...seminal figure in American popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...
Unfortunately for Coach Harry Parker and the Varsity Eight, the days of Harvard's dynasty are gone Party is very much in style in men's crew of the 1980s, and Princeton made the fact abundantly clear on the smooth waters of Lake Carnegie in New Jersey Saturday...