Word: setups
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Barrer said, "We think of peace conversion as converting to an economic setup that would make war less likely--which means an economy that doesn't depend on exploitation of other countries...
...fight these worms eating at the core of the Big Apple, merchants, theater owners and the New York Times, which is located just off the square, put up $15,000 for the TV monitors. Similar systems have been tried in other U.S. cities with varying success. If the setup works in Times Square, TV cameras may be installed in other crime-infested areas of the city...
...award is made for the work as a whole, which, in order to accommodate the director's self-indulgences, is at least a half-hour longer than good narrative sense dictates; and for one shot in par ticular, in which, having used every silly setup imaginable, Rosenberg finally resorts to photographing some action reflected on the side of a toaster...
Investors may be better served that way, the author admits, but such a setup will be too impersonal to nurture the moral melodrama that Brooks loves. He probably need not worry, though. Greed, ambition and willful refusal to face reality are constants, quite capable of being programmed into computers (as shareholders of Equity Funding have discovered). Burned investors of, say, 1983 will still need a Brooks to tell them how it was done...
...explanation for Viva's disappointing debut may be Guccione's ad hoc staff setup. Essentially the same crew that publishes Penthouse put together Viva. As the new magazine was going to press in some confusion, two senior staffers, Executive Editor Arno Karlen and Managing Editor Phyllis Seidel, resigned, complaining that Guccione repeatedly changed almost every page weeks after the closing deadline...