Word: stroh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directors participated in the workshop; from the U.S.: Budd Boetticher, Robert Gardner, Fuller, Ross McElwee, and Alexandre Rockwell. From France: Jean-Charles Tacchella, and Val*rie Stroh. The panelists were selected to represent both young, independent filmmakers, and more established directors from the two countries...
Starting Friday, each day included screenings of at least two films by workshop filmmakers, a series of seminars and dinner at Adams House, which was suitably adorned with miniature French flags. On one occasion, several students at Adams House mistook the jeune Val*rie Stroh for a foreign exchange student. Stroh screened her most recent film, "Un homme et deux femmes" (1992) at the Film Archive on Friday night. After midnight each night, workshop participants and filmmakers retired to John Harvard's Brew House for conversation and libation...
...Stroh, along with Rockwell and McElwee led the first luncheon discussion, "The Young Lions," talking about independent film. "What I consider independent is getting in debt," said Rockwell, whose Sundance Festival award-winning film, "In The Soup" (1992) premiered in Boston the following night...
...just doesn't get any better than this," boasts Old Milwaukee beer's TV campaign, which features a gyrating "Swedish Bikini Team" descending upon male campers. But Stroh Brewery, the beer's maker, is discovering that things $ just might get worse. Five women employees have sued the company, charging that the ads foster a work environment that encourages sexual harassment. "These ads tell Stroh's male employees that women are stupid, panting playthings," says attorney Lori Peterson. Her clients have been confronted with pornography, taunted with lewd remarks and slapped on the rear, she contends. The company describes the allegation...
When Iraq invaded Kuwait last August, an increasing number of overstressed employees began turning to the help lines. In Detroit, Stroh Brewery managers urged anxious workers to call the company's counseling service, Employee Assistance Associates. Callers to that service have included uneasy Arab Americans, workers with relatives serving in the gulf, and many people who are simply so anxious about the war that all they want to do is listen to news bulletins all day. Those who answer the phones can empathize. As Quaresma handled calls late one night last week, he was feeling a bit anxious himself. Said...