Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighth day of deliberations, Jury Foreman John Thomas, 35, a naval technician, told the judge that the sequestering was causing problems. They were a fairly homogeneous group-all white and mostly white-collar-but they ranged in age from Frank Darling, 70, a retired stockbroker, to Kathy Davis, 22, a secretary, whose jury duty was interfering with her plans to get married. The pressure and constant monitoring by bailiffs began to bother them. Turner decided to let them go home at night, after ordering them to avoid newspapers and TV news...
...play with emotive expansiveness while maintaining the lightness and delicacy of the music. Occasionally, however, the performance seemed to lose momentarily its sense of direction and its healthy self-confidence. The last movement was taken at an astonishingly rapid tempo which tended to emphasize Kogan's talents as a technician at the expense of his musical abilities. Although his displays of virtuosity were undeniably impressive, they seem better suited to works like those of Saint-Saens than to Mozart's ethereal classicism...
Still, The Fury is fine popular entertainment. Kirk Douglas, as the father, mobilizes a kind of crazy energy he has not displayed since he was a much younger actor; John Cassavetes is deliciously evil as the bureaucrat-villain. De Palma, like Alfred Hitchcock, is a superb technician, sure and subtle in such matters as camera placement and editing. These are skills that are often overlooked when they are not employed in the service of "serious" themes...
...technical expertise matched his ability to communicate. "Bob was excellent at first aid. He was an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and he took it very seriously. He had a very detailed knowledge of the field of emergency medical care--it was better than mine. I think I had more experience than he did, but in a weird case, you'd do better to have Patterson along, because he'd read the book. He'd read all of them...
Other Loeb personnel disagreed with Schwalbe's description of the visit. "People never got this nervous for any other show," Acha Lord '79, a technician at the Loeb said yesterday afternoon. "This is just an enormous freak...