Even as local artists flocked overseas, producing a kind of creative brain drain from Buenos Aires, foreigners arrived in record numbers.
Mr. Disney and Mr. Gold have complained in recent years, mostly in private, about many aspects of Mr. Eisner's reign, including the company's sagging fortunes, a creative brain drain, his tendency to micromanage and rocky relations with partners like Pixar Animation Studios.
"Staff should arrive at work refreshed with creative ideas, not drained from the ongoing work stream".
Talented individuals who might, in an earlier time, have gone into sociology are seeking intellectual stimulation in business, law, the natural sciences, and even creative writing; this drains sociology of much needed potential".
Under Mr Eisner, he wrote, Disney has failed to stop ABC, its broadcast-TV business, losing money, and it has suffered a drain of creative talent.
So there's the fear that you'll have this enormous drain on creative talent because people just can't afford to live here and we don't have the freedom to move around in the way that we would as part of the EU.
This was a sad drain of creative minds, and youthful energy from a country that desperately needed its younger generation.
You could hardly be surprised then, Sydney, to find your mojo drained by creative types fleeing to Melbourne, where art is allowed to experiment – even to fail.
Before the soap opera ended its run Curtis managed to crank out a couple of theatrical features, "House of Dark Shadows" (1970) and "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971), which doubtless put unseemly pressure on a cast and crew whose creative blood was already draining fast.
GIFs give the illusion of animation, and creative entries include water draining and refilling a mason jar, a cursor moving and clicking on a laptop computer screen, and continuously morphing geometric shapes.
