Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When someone calls you a thief in public, you have to respond," Jobs declared. "Maybe they want to parade me naked through the square." His way of responding was to call a press conference at his spacious but spare home in Woodside, Calif. Dressed in faded blue jeans, a wool sweater and tennis shoes (no socks), Jobs called the lawsuit "absurd" and insisted that he never intended to steal any of his old firm's proprietary technology...
...with what many consider the real stars of Miami Vice: the music and the visual pyrotechnics. Both are largely the contributions of Michael Mann, who joined the show as executive producer when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...
...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 off the pavement...
...overhead expenses that included country- club fees and personal travel for company executives. All together, 45 of the 100 largest U.S. military suppliers are under criminal investigation. Admits a vice president at a top defense contractor: "The public's impression is that everyone in this industry is a thief...
...urge to move comes as natural to McCrae and Call as the need to hang a thief. Yet they seem chained to an emotionally dead past. "The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom," said D.H. Lawrence. This includes Lorena, the local whore with the 14-karat ventricles, who joins the drive north because she has never lived any place cool. She also motivates much of the action when kidnaped by Blue Duck, an Indian whose specialty is killing settlers and selling their horses and children. Lonesome Dove has the highest mortality rate of any novel in recent...