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After graduation in 1966, Lucas worked as an assistant to Francis Coppola, who was directing Finian's Rainbow. Coppola, who remains a friend, later helped him find backing for his feature, THX 1138 (1971), a chilling look at a futuristic world in which people live underground and numbers have replaced names. American Graffiti came next. Its success persuaded 20th Century-Fox to invest money in Lucas' strange script about chirping robots, Jedi knights and a form of hocus-pocus called the Force...
Except, perhaps, to become more secure onstage and a little more insecure off. This morning, as she talks about herself in her house in Beverly Hills, gobbling a rainbow selection of vitamin pills and munching an unpalatable-looking dish of diet food, she is more jittery than usual and speaks even faster, as unlikely as that may sound. In a few hours she will be a guest on the Tonight show, and that is even harder on her nerves than being the host. "Johnny gave her her break," explains her husband, Edgar Rosenberg. "And she always wants to shine...
...additions to new curriculum offerings, the center plans to sponsor conferences between business and government officials at the federal, state and local levels, as well as attract grants for research projects on areas that affect both sectors such as regularly reform. "At the end of the rainbow, we hope to end up with better public policy decisions," he said...
What Henry Ford said of his famed Model T had long been just as true of the telephone: Americans could have it in any color they wanted, as long as it was black. Those plain, hardy phones later evolved into a rainbow-hued array of shapes and sizes, but the instrument's electronic heart remained essentially unchanged. Now, however, the familiar telephone is undergoing rapid and dramatic improvements. Among them...
When Neutra first met Wright in 1924, shortly after Neutra had come to the U.S. to work, "it was just like suddenly seeing the unicorn or some other fairy tale figure one has been searching for behind the rainbow," as Neutra recalled later. The unicorn offered Neutra a job at his Taliesin, Wis. workstead. The association did much to shape Neutra's style, although, as Drexler says in the exhibition catalogue, Neutra was both praised and blamed for cleaning up Wright's complications. While Mies and the others translated Wrightian picturesque into the language of abstract painting, Neutra...