Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...projects--which range from simple sketches to complex models--were made in so-called studio classes. In studio classes, Design School students spend one semester solving a pressing city problem, and submit their work for a grade...
Those familiar with the studio program agree it provides a unique chance for aspiring architects and urban designers to face the challenges they will meet as professionals...
...almost like the city is a laboratory for the students," says J. Roger Boothe, a 1977 Design School graduate who is now director of urban design for Cambridge. "When you look at a studio you get a feeling for what the problems...
When he pitched DEG to investors, De Laurentiis promised he would make careful, modestly budgeted pictures. Yet once ensconced at DEG, he refused to share decision-making authority and showed a knack for picking up screenplays that other studios had wisely spurned. For an Old World producer accustomed to making budget-busting epics, the studio's ambitious production slate of twelve to 20 films a year was a script for disaster. One project, the 1986 film Tai- Pan, cost $25 million to make but brought in barely $2 million...
...that her homelife was not quite that of her white peers. "The Chinese food was wonderful when it was family," she remembers. "But when my friends came over, I was embarrassed." Selling movie projects in Hollywood, director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Eat a Bowl of Tea) finds some studio executives "patronizing or confused." Says he: "If you speak English with a French accent, they say, 'That's cute.' But if you speak it with a Chinese accent, people say, 'That's awful. He's killing our language...