Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fitzgerald saw scenes of this year's show. "Sealed With a Quiche," after the awards presentation yesterday afternoon. Fitzgerald said she enjoyed the preview of what Anderson called "a tradition of Harvard men in tutus and tap shoes...
...President gave a preview of his argument last week in a speech to civic and business leaders in New York City. "Yes, we are in a recession," Reagan said. "Our Administration is cleanup crew for those who went on a nonstop [spending] binge and left the tab for us to pick...
...been distressed last August when Paramount showed an incomplete print to distributors and some critics; last week he explained his Radio City gamble by saying that he simply "wanted to see the film clean one time before it went into the funnel" of the distribution system. As the preview deadline neared, Coppola made last-minute changes in the film and sent them from his studio to Rome, where they were incorporated into the master print. A courier with the final print arrived in New York on Thursday at 2:30 p.m., 29 hours before show time. The night before...
...last, irresistible quirk of personality. This is known in the business as "the tweak. He proposed having Bally's enormously popular Pac Man, a dot-gobbling yellow disc, help the player by eating balloons on the clown's head. And so it came to pass, and a sneak preview was held at a local arcade. The results, after all of this R. & D., were disastrous. The game, renamed Kick, took too long to play, and thus took in too few quarters. To remedy this, the rate of fall of the balloons was slightly speeded...
...rent a hall to preview his movie. But the guy was Francis Coppola, 42, director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart...