Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with him, study it, and play it in the morning. His teacher was a very Prussian octogenarian named Frederick Zech, formerly professor of music at the conservatory in Potsdam. "He was a great disciplinarian," recalls the pupil. "He turned me from a Sloppy Joe into a good technician. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would have taken its place." But the effect of music on his later photography went deeper than inculcating a habit of technical excellence through discipline. "I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music...
...policy and tactics. Frequently the host is Richard Viguerie, 45, the direct-mail conglomerateur whose enterprises in Falls Church, Va., are expected to gross nearly $20 million this year. Viguerie, who said last week that he will work for the John Connally campaign, is at once an adviser, technician and promoter for the New Right. In his mass mailings and monthly Conservative Digest-an indulgence that ran up a $1.5 million loss last year-Viguerie plugs the newest and most active groups...
Despite his brobdingnagian frame (6 ft. 7 in., 240 lbs.), his ever present cigar and his gravelly bass voice, Paul Volcker is a man who likes to keep a low profile, to perform his financial wizardry as a bureaucratic technician rather than as a public figure. But such behind-the-scenes machinations have their frustrations. One night, after an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, Volcker was so exasperated with his colleagues that he strode down to the Tivoli Gardens and proceeded to throw wooden balls in a booth full of china plates until he had smashed away his tension...
Volcker is the only man in history who has officially devalued the U.S. dollar twice. As Under Secretary of the Treasury, he was the technician who hopped from chair to chair around the table negotiating various devaluation figures with the delegates to a 1971 currency conference in Washington. And in 1973 he secretly shuttled among the main industrial nations themselves, flying 31,000 miles in five days, losing his hat in Tokyo and exhausting his supply of cheap cigars and clean shirts before returning with an agreement...
...there's a reason for those shrill test frequencies that get you out of bed when you fall asleep the night before watching Kojak.) A moderator and a scientific expert are having a violent political disagreement about how to handle the zombies. In the pandemoniun, four people--a technician, his stage manager-girlfriend, and two armed guards--decide to take off (quite literally--they leave in a helicopter) and find a safer area. They eventually land in a large, abandoned shopping mall outside Pittsburgh and decide to stay there. Much of the film's remaining time is spent mowing down...