Or put another way, "swing" consumers were lured to AT&T by carefully directed offers.
Though who — at least among those who saw her at an impressionable age — can forget the snake woman who emerges, Play-Doh body writhing serpentinely, before the Sultan's court — and is met by carefully directed gazes of awe and wonder and cries of "Allah, be praised!" on the part of extras who are, rather obviously, looking at nothing.
Second, the work's humor has become more carefully directed.
Wallace is as much a poet as she is a playwright, and her carefully wrought language, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, can weigh the action down.
Jonathan Pryce is the latest actor to scale Mount Lear and, although it's getting a bit crowded on the summit these days, he gives a striking, individualistic performance in a carefully considered production directed by Michael Attenborough.
The dominant production figure is Alberto Cavalcanti, the Brazilian-born surrealist whose influence is everywhere (the box's title comes from a film he made with JB Priestley), and the most famous films are Night Mail (1936) and North Sea (1938), both carefully shaped narratives directed by Harry Watt.
"I am not an Arab," he says at one point, and "The Dictator," directed by Larry Charles, carefully avoids references to Islam.
Although the play has its flaws, it is finely directed by Orla O'Loughlin, who creates an atmosphere of carefully sustained tension.
A carefully wrought, impeccably performed chamber opera from Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") and Jeanine Tesori ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), directed by George C. Wolfe.
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, Dope, tells the story of Malcolm (played by Shameik Moore) who is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles.
