Word: propping
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...wear prosthetics on my face, which melt if it gets too hot," he says. "That takes five hours to put on, so if it gets too warm, the whole day stops and we start again." In the next studio under a musty cover resides the film's most expensive prop - the 5.2-m-high chandelier, which the Phantom famously drops on the opera-house audience. Weighing in at 2.2 tons, with three tiers of 20,000 crystals, it's valued at $1.25 million. Schumacher says he enjoys the epic scale. "It's got to be big." he says. "The story...
...minimalist stage effects--like a swaying lamp to represent the rolling sea. A new version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and restaged this fall by Jeff Church of the Coterie Theater in Kansas City, Mo., features one prop, a cage on wheels, and four actors--including, in a startling but wonderfully apt innovation, one for Jekyll and another for Hyde...
Johnson & Johnson felt much the same way in the mid-1990s about its new business selling stents, the tiny devices used to prop open clogged arteries. With a virtual monopoly of the billion-dollar business, J&J alienated many of its cardiologist customers by charging high prices and failing to develop a new generation of product. When competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck...
Activists say that revenues from oil companies such as PetroChina prop up the Sudanese regime, which is accused of systematically slaughtering its own people...
Every new Mustang sparks scenes like this, and Ford can count on fans to prop up sales. The outgoing edition traded on its name while rivals smoked it with superior build quality, engineering and style. For the first time in a generation, however, the car can speak for itself. Ford gave the vehicle its first all-new platform in 25 years and based the design on Mustangs from '67 to '70, probably the car's best period. In a bit of retro pandering, even the shark-nose grille is back...