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...narrative continually reveals, Adams possessed a rare talent for winning the friendship of brilliant but difficult men and women, including Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps it was because he so seldom raised his voice. The memoir boils over only once, on the subject of the Reagan Administration's environmental policies, which spurred his worst fears about human predators nibbling at the land...
...rare events that brought me to this rarest one." He had to be in the American League; there had to be a DH rule; and he probably had to be with Kansas City. "Then I had to have a son, and he had to have the talent, and the Royals had to draft...
...effort of will by the women directors, and of good will by the male bosses who employ them. "I never look at gender or hair color or clothing," avers Steven Spielberg, who chose women to direct three of the 24 episodes for his Amazing Stories. "I look at talent." But every baby mogul knows he must be a businessman first, a booster second. Says Mark Canton, president of production at Warner Bros.: "Nobody hires a woman just because she's a woman. The stakes are too high to be an idealist...
...Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent just to get through the studio gate. The goal for women directors is to persuade the male power elite that they are not some exotic Other, not the Not Quite Us. Just moviemakers...
American audiences may find a few disappointments. "Many of their famous classical music artists are dead or have already come to the West," Niefeld says. "By and large, the talent that's left over there is of less consequence than before. It isn't like 20 years ago, when the Soviets had a pantheon of world performers you couldn't find anywhere else...