Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Chong learned how to direct as he went along. "In a comedy," he realized, "you need pace instead of plot. It's so hard to get all the elements working. I have tremendous respect for any filmmaker. To finish it, then to have it shown, then to have it accepted...
...sweating. "I want you Larry Holmes, I want you!" The words are forced. Thinking hard, trying to keep the attention of the man who controls the cameras for ABC, Ali moves towards Holmes for a direct confrontation. The ring apron is only 18 inches wide; Ali is awkward in his attempts to draw nearer to his ex-sparring partner. He continues to shout, but the words are slurred. Brain damage, a British physician has speculated. Ali almost slips and has to grab the top tope of the ring. He frowns. He knows ten million television watchers have seen him lose...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher looked on pensively as her Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey Atkins, presented the long-awaited document to the House of Commons. The 16-page paper outlined an ambitious government plan for restoring self-government to Ulster after roughly eight years of direct rule by Westminster and a decade of sectarian violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Atkins guardedly insisted that the Thatcher government's initiative contained "grounds for some optimism. I detect that the leaders of the political parties really do want to find a way forward...
...branch: 1) Cabinet seats proportional to their strength in the Assembly, or 2) a Cabinet controlled by the Protestant majority but counterbalanced by a special Council of the Assembly, endowed with veto powers, on which the largely Catholic minority parties would have a guaranteed 50% representation. Westminster would retain direct control over security, most taxation, defense and foreign policy; but all other political powers would reside in the government...
...minutes and arrangements with local tradesmen to provide books and other items at any hour. The Pontchartrain will shop for a guest who has forgotten to pack the essential black tie. The Westgate can provide a stenographer for dictation at midnight. The Carlyle will soon offer worldwide direct-dial phones for international hommes des affaires...