Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before shooting starts, and some episodes have even wound up short, forcing the writers to invent an extra scene to fill the time -- usually just the two stars vamping before the camera to "introduce" the segment...
Such inventiveness does not come cheap. The Taming of the Shrew segment cost a reported $3 million -- nearly twice the show's usual $1.6 million an episode, already well above average for an hour show. Because of the ultrafast dialogue, scripts average 95 pages, compared with about 60 for a typical TV hour, and take ten to twelve days to shoot (eight for most shows). Much of the production disarray, however, can be traced to Caron, 32, a portly ex-writer for Remington Steele. Co-workers describe him as a perfectionist who thrives on working close to deadlines and asking...
More important, perhaps, the purchase of AMC's Jeep line helps Chrysler, which has led the way with such innovations as the minivan, leap into a market segment where it is not represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
RECENT STUDIES have made evident the increasingly brutal tendencies of at least one segment of the German population. A government-sponsored study showed that 13 percent of Germans over the age of 18 consider themselves extreme right-wingers. That population, according to the survey, believes that the majority of journalists should be put in jail and considers foreign workers to be a mortal threat to the German nation. Even more disturbing, the survey found that the majority of the group yearns for a leader who could unify the nation as effectively as did Adolf Hitler...
Another long-time listener, Jeremy Shapiro '89, said that he liked Open Phone America--the segment of the show during which listeners call in with questions on almost any topic--because "he's so obnoxious to the people who call...