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Dechning worldwide sales dropped Polaroid Corporation's first earnings by nearly half and cut sales by 10 per cent, company officials announced here yesterday...
...companies, most of them privately held, are proliferating from coast to coast, particularly in California and the Boston-New York-Washington corridor. Even Watson's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y., is planning a research company. Wall Street analysts disagree about which fledgling firms will become the Polaroid, Xerox or Texas Instruments of gene splicing, or indeed survive the infant industry's inevitable shake-outs and growing pains. But a handful seem to be well ahead of the pack, and have attracted wide interest in the fields of both science and industry...
...what they are paid for is to make polyester look like silk. A face that Botticelli would have admired helps a great deal, and after an hour at the makeup table Clotilde has drawn one on herself, cooked her long brown hair in curlers and As Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real pros, she is good at waiting. She daydreams of Paris, where she keeps an apartment. She sees herself doing the spring collections, "and Yves St. Laurent himself is tying my ribbon, and I'm going down...
Silverman did urge the hiring of Actress Mariette Hartley, best known for her sassy role opposite James Garner in the Polaroid commercials. She was brought in last summer to substitute for Pauley, who was getting married to Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Though no one said as much, it seemed clear that if Hartley had done well, the job might have been hers. She did not impress NBC, however-the result of sabotage from the staff, according to Hartley-and Pauley's contract was extended three years...
...respectively and wonderfully, Nickleby and the orphan Smike, are the only two actors in the piece with only one part to play. All the others average six: usually two major roles and a gallery of minor parts. R.S.C. Designer John Napier, who made all the costumes, took Polaroid photos for reference and found at the end that he had assembled an album of 271 individual shots, which included all the named characters plus extras in the crowd scenes...