Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to Bigelow, the accumulation of contacts. "What's been achieved for women," she says, "is access." As the Hollywood cliche goes, it's a relationship business, and all directors, male and female, need what Silver calls godfathers, studio executives who are sympathetic to their work. "Younger studio executives are more responsive to women. They have girlfriends, sisters, wives who work, and they are simply better attuned to the problems of working women, which includes the problems of women directors...
When one thinks of The Grateful Dead, the immediate image brought to mind is that of drugs, tie-dyes and Jerry Garcia, the silver-haired, overweight and unassuming leader of the group...
...Take Messages from Dead People," the sullen vice president is described as having "the gravitational density of an imploding star." The same story also presents the reader with a memorable image from Guyana at dusk: "a host of bats sewed up the great opal and silver clouds with their flitting, looping trajectories...
Several first-years referred to the history of the rooms they will now occupy. Eli A. Silver '95, claiming that writer Henry David Thoreau had lived in Hollis Hall as an undergraduate, wondered aloud if he could charge admission if Thoreau's room turned...
...city fathers have no intention of turning their town into another Las Vegas. Branson sees itself as a family attraction: almost every production has a flag-waving number, and there are several gospel shows. Jack Herschend, president of Silver Dollar City, points out that no blue shows have succeeded. "This is such a family place that anyone who tried to capture the off- color niche wouldn't work...