Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers," he says. "They're not obvious movies. They don't have a prior history. But they've all tested from Very Good to Through the Roof." Canton crosses his fingers around A League of Their Own and Mo' Money. No doubt every other mogul has a similar wish list...
...republics not to declare independence, announced the establishment of a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The constitution of the remapped Yugoslavia recognizes, at least for now, that its territory ends at the shared border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. Diplomats optimistically interpreted that fact as a renunciation of Belgrade's prior claims that Serbs in any of the republics had a right to belong to an expanded Serbian state...
...producer had the right to "pull from the outside"--a phrase that describes the process of auditioning and casting actors who had not originally tried out for the show. Inwood also asserts that the part was offered to Jones by the show's producer, Hubert Lin, without her prior knowledge or consent...
...problem with the poster is that it required too much prior knowledge. To the poster's designer and Peninsula staffers, it was obvious that the poster's allusion to ugly stereotypes of Blacks (promoted by white heroes of the sexual revolution like the Jack Kerouac and the Paul Tillich) was an attempt to discredit those who have promulgated them. To others, it wasn't obvious, and that's Peninsula replaced the posters...
Hillel Coordinating Council Chair Shai A. Held '94 claimed no prior knowledge of the security measures and expressed surprise over the decision. "I have no reason to think that this is needed," Held said...