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...silly. It seems like a simplified case of the Best and the Brightest using intricate formulas and training to create a project that, to the average Joe, at least is wrong. The historical commission voted 5 to 1 to issue a "certificate of appropriateness," but few passersby walk through Johnston Gate without a giggle or a smirk. "Cookie house" is a common label floating around the Yard One employee asked for the designs so he could build a doll house for his daughter. Scott who says he himself is pleased with the final product concedes that some might...
Industry insiders are split over the future of generics. James W. Johnston, an executive vice president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, strongly opposes following Liggett into generics. He and many other cigarette officials believe that the no-names are just a recession phenomenon. Says Johnston: "In my judgment, you've got to have the link between the consumer and an identifiable brand name. I predict that the success of generics will be short-lived." Liggett officials, on the other hand, believe that smokers will stick with their new, lower-cost smokes in better times. Says Dey: "There is still brand...
Cigarette companies are introducing new brands aimed specifically at upper-scale consumers interested in quality. But Reynolds' Johnston points out that the new brands are high-stake gambles, since it now costs $80 million to launch a totally new cigarette. Only six new brands have captured .5% of the market in the past decade. Those were More, Now, Merit, Barclay and Golden Lights...
...would be shot. Then another element, like a rebel fighter, would be photographed and superimposed on it, as if it were another layer on a cake. Some of the shots in the final space battle had 67 such layers, one on top of the other. Says Art Director Joe Johnston: "We have to make each film better than the one previous. The public demands a special-effects extravaganza, something that will blow them away for their five dollars. We were never sure whether the movie was a vehicle for the effects or for the story...
...response to a plea from a local businessman that the city help "those who are unable to help themselves" due to alcoholism. Councilor Saundra Graham--who also represents a part of the City in the State House - volunteered to arrange a meeting between a Cambridge committee, Dukakis, and Phil Johnston, director of human services for the state...