Word: productions
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...Mathis and Liberace, who broke box- office records last year by filling the 6,000-seat auditorium for 21 performances. At the same time, Evans has turned the Music Hall into an entertainment conglomerate that sponsors concerts elsewhere, produces plays and TV specials, and stages sales meetings and gala product introductions for major corporations...
...film's denoument concerns some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...
Miller says that his first foreign service assignment in Iran in the early 1960s taught him the impact U.S. decisions can have. American policy in Iran was a product of "confused purposes," he says. While the U.S. helped to improve health and education, it "destroyed the democratic vision," Miller says, adding that Washington did not take advantage of a "number of opportunities" to encouage the Shah to open the political process...
Consumers have long been able to buy inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras, but the Maxxum was the first fully automated single-lens reflex product to enable people to take high-quality 35-mm pictures with high-technology ease. Now the year-old Maxxum is attracting rivals. Last week Nippon Kogaku (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $940 million), the maker of Nikon, became the first firm to announce a comparable alternative to Minolta's pioneering model. Like the Maxxum, the Nikon N2020 will use two microchips and a tiny motor inside the camera to focus automatically. The camera, which will be priced...
Finally, it's a trivial but perhaps telling point that the process of visiting classes is referred to as "shopping." There is an attitude far too prevalent among students at every university these days that an education is a consumer product you buy, a service which is performed for you, rather than a process in which the student must participate, and in which he or she is responsible for his or her own performance. Maybe I'm reading too much into a world, but in the context of many remarks and statements I have heard and read lately...