Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films at a fraction of the cost of the average big-budget Hollywood production. While Dustin Hoffman and his production company, Punch Productions, have announced a deal with the Australian production company Village Roadshow to finance and distribute small dramatic films for about $10 million apiece, action producer Joel Silver is teaming up with "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner to make low-budget action films in the $10 million range. Setting the abstemious tone at the opening Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors...
...there is any silver lining, it is perhaps that Radcliffe's multidisciplinary panels saw no deliberate villainy or single cause for blame. "Everyone is looking for scapegoats--the government, welfare mothers, the private sector," says Marina Von Neumann, former chief economist for General Motors. "But there just aren't any scapegoats." Yet the flip side of that, points out Ann Bookman, policy and research director of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, is that "no one sector can take this on single-handedly...
...bureau chief Lisa Beyer was on maternity leave, her brand-new son Coby got a crash course in deadline reporting as his mom swung into action. After alerting New York, she filed details of the killing and analysis of its political implications. Bureau reporters Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein, Eric Silver and Robert Slater worked their Palestinian, political and security sources, while correspondents Lara Marlowe in Beirut and Scott MacLeod in Paris soaked up reaction throughout the Middle East and Europe...
...first day of the auction, Manhattan interior designer Juan Molyneux bought Jackie's engraved sterling-silver Tiffany tape measure for $48,875. Sotheby's ruled it would be worth $500 to $700. "When I bought the tape measure," says Molyneux, "the first thing I measured was my sanity...
...detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness as they raise the Iwo Jima flag on a patio table...