Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...going to the edge and not falling off." A 1930s city would come to life, not on location, where reality must be counterfeited, but through mattes, combining live action with painted backdrops, which would lend a "magical" air and keep the budget at a bearable $30 million. The final decision was radical: to shoot the picture in seven primary and secondary colors that would define the characters and story while adding a unique visual humor. "Love it or hate it," Disney movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg kept saying, "Dick Tracy will look unlike any movie you've ever seen...
...house and employ the largest flood of immigrants to Israel since the early 1950s. Meanwhile, Moscow's decision to lift the gates on Jewish emigration has so infuriated Arab leaders that their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel did not halt Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, he warned, new thought would be given to "what we can do with issuing permits for exit." Israel and Washington balked, and three days later, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze assured the U.S. that emigration would continue...
...Yanks make it to the final contest in Rome on July 8? Highly unlikely. In 1950 an unheralded U.S. squad shook the soccer establishment to its shoelaces by beating mighty England in a Cup game. But in this age of cautious play, when winning the Cup can net international stars $250,000 each in bonus money, the Americans will probably go winless. In the first round they are up against veteran squads from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Italy, a three-time champion. Bookmakers give the U.S only a 1-in-500 chance of bringing home the Cup. But U.S. Coach...
...Final Summit. The Wall Street Journal has concluded that such mettings are rapidly becoming obsolete as Gorbachev loses his command of events at home...
Even soup kitchens are as much a safety net as a final refuge for the down- and-out. Ptasinska, for example, has just borrowed nearly $1,000 from a privately financed special fund to set up a small business ironing sheets for hospitals and other institutions. She is counting on earning $300 in a good month, enough to make repayments and help support her family...