Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis have been talking with superagent Michael Ovitz about forming an alliance to make and distribute films. The idea is to create a coalition, or umbrella, that would enable the telephone companies, with the clout of their 50 million customers, to acquire the programming that will go out over these networks...
...Tyner have recently emerged, ironically enough, as two of today's most popular mainstream jazz musicians. The back-to-back appearances by Jones and Tyner this month at the Regattabar in Cambridge provided an excellent opportunity to evaluate the end-product of thirty years' works outside the Coltrane umbrella...
HRSFA was originally founded as an umbrella organization for a number of SIGs. Eight years ago, an unwilling Dean vetoed the formation of a gaming club; and then of a comics club; a science-fiction association was okay, though, and came to embody all the fantasies that were not allowed in Harvard reality...
Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal...
...documentary took more than four years to complete, according to Peter Jones, founder of Green Umbrella Limited, the firm that produced the show...