Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young lawyers who will be asked to join major corporate legal firms as associates in New York City, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and other large cities. At these firms, the competition is brutal, and perhaps one in four survive to become partners six years later. The rest spin off to smaller firms, corporate jobs, Government work or other fields. The range of possible career paths is staggering. With the law explosion, a new member of the bar can elect to try a judicial clerkship, criminal law, tax practice, public interest work, corporate law, legal aid or work in public...
Abrams also stands to make additional "millions," according to Stewart, by marketing many spin-offs of Gnomes. Among the ventures that are fairly well set: gnome dolls, calendars, Christmas decorations, jigsaw puzzles, stationery and a gnome home, designed by Artist Poortvliet, that can be punched out from heavy paper and assembled in a few hours. Licensing arrangements are being discussed with companies that are panting to sell gnome dishes, tote bags, pillows, egg cups and jewelry, including an enameled gnome with gleaming diamond eyes. Negotiations are under way for a TV special. While Abrams has resisted the temptation to cash...
...great if they opened up one of those tombs and found an airplane inside?" From the time he was small and watched commercials for Mars candy ("They were the best?they'd fly you right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta to spin him around the living room ("Fly me, Daddy!"); from the spring he persuaded his father to help him build a "real" plane in the backyard (the wings and fuselage were made of wooden planks and car batteries powered the propellers)?Travolta has dreamed of soaring, of escaping...
...goes further. In one of many representative sequences in The Fury, Robin (Andrew Stevens), Lewis's jealous lover, a telekinetic teenager who makes people bleed at will, mentally jerks her into the air, blood pouring from her eyes, nose, and mouth, and as she moans and gurgles begins to spin her around, whirling her faster and faster until her sprays of blood spatter the walls and lampshades. If Hitchcock assumes our voyeurism, DePalma must assume our psychosis and sado-masochism...
...sequels; Medway Productions will make other kinds of films, including a sequel to Lucas' 1973 hit, American Graffiti. Sprocket Systems Inc. will provide special effects for the Star Wars progeny and any other films that need its services, and Black Falcon Ltd. will market books, records, toys and other spin-offs from Lucas' films...