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The Writers Guild of America set new pay scales in March. An author now gets a minimum of $22,801 to do a treatment and screenplay for a low-budget film ($2.5 million or less) and $42,000 for a more expensive film. A rewrite and a "polish" can bring...
In addition, "bone responds to what we do," says Anthropologist Stephanie Damadio of the Smithsonian Institution. A clarinetist's jaw will sometimes suggest his profession or a waitress's developed arm strength may be evident in the bone.
Stirling's growing reputation belies the controversy surrounding his work. A 59-year-old Scotch architect of imposing girth but unpretentious manner, he was little known in the U.S. when Harvard selected him in 1979 from among some 70 competitors for the Sackler job. Since then, he has won the...
The concept of the security of the Soviet state is sacrosanct in a way roughly comparable to the concept of personal freedom in the West. In Russian, security is bezopasnost -- the B in KGB. The word literally means "the absence of danger." As a profession, security means vigorously identifying and...
New York City Opera General Director BEVERLY SILLS at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.: "When I told my father I wanted to be an opera star -- not an opera singer, you understand, but a star -- he said, 'The best thing that could happen to you is that you will get...