Word: reels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another intercepted the bullion dealers' calls to check on the letter and draft. The four men thus hauled in 2,400 gold coins valued at $1.2 million. Three days later, thieves broke into the projection room of the Classic Cinema in Hastings and spirited away a 50-lb. reel of Return of the Jedi. Police assumed that within hours the jealously guarded first complete print would be on a video transfer machine...
...Reel Life Women: The Role of the American Female in Film During the Depression." Papas gives detailed scene-by-scene analysis of the four works, such as the following commentary on "It Happened One Night...
...film on videotape and that it was excellent," says Winkler. "At the same time, they were running it in British pubs and charging admission." Producer David Wolper says that after he completed the picture This Is Elvis, he found that "a projectionist in Chicago was copying the second reel of my movie while he was showing the first reel...
...started interviewing Pepper," says Gorey, "I had in mind the stereotype of the aged: I feared that Pepper would repeat himself, that he would have forgotten things. I thought that I would have to look up dates for everything he talked about. How wrong I was. Pepper can reel off dates, names and long-ago events with startling accuracy. As one of the men who planned the third-term candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt, Pepper not only remembered the date and hotel where the meeting occurred, but he also remembered the food that was served: finger sandwiches." Over a period...
...yards of fabric coaxed into stunning shape with a skill and diligence that today cannot be had anywhere outside of major surgery. The olfactory nerve, meantime, gets a good working over from L'Heure Bleue, a Guerlain scent that is sprayed every morning throughout the galleries. The senses reel. They are meant to. This is not art-if clothes may be called art at all-meant to be pondered and absorbed. This is curatorial show business of a particularly shrewd order. With the humble addition of a light show and the sale of Pharmaceuticals at the ticket counter...