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...shows on TV are more heavily rewritten than Yorkin and Lear's. Whether a script originates with their staff or is one of the 60 percent that come from freelancers, Yorkin and Lear usually see that it gets torn to pieces. The story line acquires new twists, the dialogue is recast, sometimes new characters are added...
...less elegant shoring, a less grand collection than stacks of books or caryatids. But this crude and hasty assemblage is itself the urge to seek out Athenian spaces, Greek or otherwise--spaces from which history, at length and in great detail, allows itself to be made and rewritten...
...years, creating the characters, tweaking the dialogue, researching the setting, lining up an agent—all in anticipation of the moment when the screenplay is sold and the writer is left behind, usually without any creative say over how the movie is changed and the script is rewritten. By the time the film premieres, the writer is usually forgotten—the anonymity of writers at the Academy Awards stands as proof...
...rallying cry of the old economy was "Spend it while you have it." In good times, companies rushed to build plants and invest in R. and D. Then when the economy cooled, they froze their budgets and tried to slog through. But the New Economy has rewritten the rules. Even in the midst of the current slump, companies are showing that carefully targeted spending on new technology--from business software to computer-storage hardware--can boost the bottom line, often within just a few quarters, by increasing efficiency and lowering costs. In today's economy, there's a new rallying...
...burnished as literature. One of the most colorful characters to walk our halls, George paced the corridors in stocking feet, opining loudly (and not always politely) on the ingredients of his stories even as he engineered the facts into narrative. The halls still echo too with his wickedly rewritten lyrics parodying political and journalistic betes noires, a skill he easily transposed to hilarious songs celebrating his many friends on staff. His talents humbled...