Word: staticity
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...year low. Katzenberg's prescription: smaller budgets and fewer films like Dick Tracy, last summer's comic-book extravaganza starring Beatty and Madonna that cost an estimated $100 million to make and market. While the movie has grossed nearly $200 million in theaters worldwide, Katzenberg complains that it has "static" characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes, "the shelf life of many movies has come to be somewhat shorter than ((that of)) a supermarket tomato...
Increased individual ownership has "changed the face of the industry," Cavellini says, by decreasing the number of student and part-time drivers in the field and thereby creating a more static cabbie pool...
...Like Static in the Background...
...long as the war continues to loom in the back of people's minds like "static in the background," the usual student concerns about schoolwork and jobs will just become more complicated, says Suzanne Repetto, the associate director of the Bureau and a counselor there...
Webster warned that it would take longer, however, before the Iraqi military started feeling squeezed. Given the static defensive posture of Saddam's air and ground forces, which reduces wear and tear on equipment, they could probably maintain their current level of readiness for nine months at least. After that, however, the unavailability of spare parts would start to tell, especially for Iraq's high-tech air force. Webster predicted that by as early as next March, Baghdad would have to reduce reconnaissance and training flights by its fleet of French- and Soviet-made aircraft. The departure of foreign technicians...