Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually, it was in a warehouse...I moved stuff." Having made my confession, I slink off into exile, leaving them looking like a bunch of children who have just learned their grandmother is a transvestite...
Usually, this person will not say another word until the last day, when he shuffles up to me and growls "You may be real good with them books and tests and stuff, but you ain't shit with a weedeater...
...have to renew or cancel.' And he'd say, 'Brandon! Is the show still good? Do you think the ratings are going to improve? Then pick it up.' " Tinker insists there was no altruism in his strategy. "You're spending less money," he notes, "when you stick with the stuff you bought in the first place." As it happened, NBC's quality shows, however low-rated, were attracting what advertisers call a quality audience. Mad. Ave. ad mavens were discovering that a rule long applied to magazines--that 1,000 New Yorker readers are more valuable than 1,000 National...
...people will show you three or four different Mercedes. One will be white, one will be black, one will be silver. You will not get a red one or a brown one. Michael knows how things are going to look on camera. A lot of it is very basic stuff that has never been applied to TV. For example, Michael carried a water truck around with him on his movie Thief, watering the streets down. So I decided to water the streets at night in my episode of Miami Vice. You get a different look, a beautiful reflection of moonlight...
...high- rise; fortunately, they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt), but steel stairway railings and iron treads are raw and hard- edged, in keeping with the Bessemer grittiness of the original shed. In all, the commercial arcades work hard to be interesting...