Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhibition's key paintings is a little-known Picasso, Studies, from 1920. It looks like a detail from the wall of his studio on which a number of postcards of his own works have been arranged, in all their diversity of style: cubist still lifes reproduced in miniature, but also a woman's head and two hands done in the rotund "classical" manner he adopted after 1919. The emblems of fragmentation (both cubist and antique) share the same pictorial space, essentially that of a collage, with those of an equally intense longing for stability and wholeness. It is a singularly...
Technically, the government may be right in saying it did not pay the reporters. Instead, it hired Jerusalem radio-studio owner Avi Yaffe, and Yaffe in turn hired the journalists. "The professional journalists work for me," insists Yaffe. "They get orders from no one. They work according to their professional consciences...
...Radio, where some of the 12 reportedly work: "I wasn't involved. I don't know anyone who was. That's all I will tell you." In the wake of last week's revelations, a clearly embarrassed Foreign Ministry said it was suspending its relationship with the Avi Yaffe Studio -- but it claimed the suspension came as the result of a "standard review," not because of the newspaper reports...
...bigger than 80% of the 1980 pie." So there is less riding on the weekly theatrical tally. A film's main job is to establish itself as something the public wants to consume in the future, where the real money is. This long shelf life can persuade a studio to pay $3 million for a screenplay and $20 million to a star like Sylvester Stallone. "These artists get so much," says Murphy, "because their agents know there is home video in Borneo and it's coming to Singapore...
Douglas' 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, features a combination of gusto and raw intelligence. Dance with the Devil is reminiscent of those studio-bound productions with twice-breathed dialogue and a B-movie cast. If Kirk Douglas of Beverly Hills had worked only for directors like Danny Dennison, he could still be Issur Danielovitch of Amsterdam...