Word: shoestringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's moviemakers, who have turned out some of the world's best postwar pictures on a shoestring (Open City, To Live in Peace, Paisan, Shoeshine), had reason to feel bitter last week about their American competitors. Hollywood was pressing its advantage in the one department in which...
"We're starting out very modestly on the shortest possible shoestring," explained General Manager John T. McManus, former TIME and PM writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British...
A year later, Socialist Editor George Lansbury revived the paper. At first, unpaid volunteers wrote the stories. Lord Northcliffe, amazed at the Herald's shoestring survival, dubbed it "the Miracle of Fleet Street."
Competition and the fight for existence made life precarious for the editors of the Magenta and the early CRIMSON. Operating on the proverbial financial shoestring and publishing papers with only the President's rooms for a newsroom, imagination and resourcefulness were the prime requisites for success in the 1880s and...
By American standards, Shoeshine was made on a shoestring: 31 million lire ($138,000). (Open City cost only $100,000.) But it was a long, hard scrimmage in the making. Neither Producer Paolo W. Tamburella (who thought up the idea), nor Director Vittorio De Sica, nor Sergio Amidei (who wrote...