Word: setups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIFTH PARADOX: Stanley Kubrick himself. Barry Lyndon may be an austere epic, but an epic it surely is. Such works pose complex logistical and technical problems that must be solved along with the aesthetic questions that arise every time a new camera setup is chosen. Kubrick's basic cast and crew of 170-augmented by hundreds of extras and supporting specialists as needed -crawled from location to location across Ireland and England for 8% months. Normally, the commanders of cinematic operations on this scale are outgoing, not to say colorfully flamboyant characters...
...more substantive issues, no agreement is likely. France and some other countries will ask for a revision of the present exchange-rate system, under which supply and demand in money markets determines the value of dollars, marks, francs, yen and other currencies. They want a "stable but adjustable" setup that would pledge central banks to keep fluctuations between the dollar and other key currencies within a limited range, perhaps...
...present the Civil Aeronautics Board approves fares, determines routes and decides which lines will be permitted to fly where in the U.S. That system has been denounced as a breeder of inefficiency among airlines because it shelters them from aggressive competition. Ford branded the setup "protectionist." Key parts of his plan...
...when the boat will be settled. I guess the question I have for you is whether you'll be comfortable with having not eight people settled, but having ten of you all capable, and at some time I'll tell you what I think will be the best setup." He paused, seeming to sense the dissatisfaction. "If that proves to be too unnerving. I'd be willing to settle it. But that's my inclination right now." The group nodded, signaling their acceptance...
...about a new movie place in Cambridge, Off the Wall, where they show free films, children's pictures, video, and a lot of experimental stuff. He says a bunch of friends--filmmakers and artists--began to show movies up in their apartment and it expanded into the present coffeehouse setup they have now, which does "what the Orson Welles intended to do, and would be doing if they could afford it." Off the Wall appears to have some cash, and can get cheaper rates since they're showing on a small scale and mostly short films and some free movies...