Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard news. This can mean that the normal weeks of planning may be telescoped into a few days, with the whole meticulous preparation process taking on the look and feel of a speeded-up movie. Such was the case for this week's major story on Film Maker Steven Spielberg...
...last week was West Coast Show Business Correspondent Martha Smilgis, who last year interviewed Spielberg for TIME'S story on Raiders of the Lost Ark. For this new project, Smilgis had a long afternoon of conversation with Spielberg at his beach house just north of Malibu. Says she: "Steven made me a great lunch. His mother sent over curried chicken, and he supplied salmon, tuna fish, fresh fruit salad and his own specialty, freshly baked pumpkin bread. Food is his hobby." Smilgis' assignments are not always so appealing. As part of covering her beat in Los Angeles...
Once upon a time there was a little boy named Steven, who lived in a mythical land called Suburbia. His house was just like everybody else's house; his family's car and dog and swimming pool were just like everybody else's too. But little Steven's dreams were different. He dreamed of telling the stories of his strange land-wonderful tales of his home and his school, his parents and especially his friends-and making them shine like new. So every night he would tiptoe outside his ranch-style house and make a wish...
...August night, when the sky seemed clearer and the starlight stronger, Steven felt himself drawn to his family's two-car garage. There, gleaming in a forgotten corner, was an old piece of machinery he had never noticed before: an 8-mm movie camera. He picked up the camera, turned around, and what do you think he saw? Yes, it was a beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed...
...press release, the company dismissed its Asian competitors as "essentially garage-type operations." That confident statement was rich in irony because the very first Apple computers were built in the garage at the home of one of the company's founders, Steven Jobs...