Michels gave him an index card bearing the mantra "YOU ARE MARKED TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF JUDGMENT" and one with a drawing of a stick figure radiating arrows to symbolize the internal seat of authority, which McKay keeps in the visor of his car.
Here's how Dana describes a method Michels employed with the director Adam McKay, who suffered from "a fear of the red carpet and talk shows": Michels gave him an index card bearing the mantra "YOU ARE MARKED TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF JUDGMENT" and one with a drawing of a stick figure radiating arrows to symbolize the internal seat of authority, which McKay keeps in the visor of his car.
NEWARK — After Franklin Abazie fell behind on his mortgage last year, he tucked one of his foreclosure notices, still in its ripped envelope, into the visor of his car — a looming reminder of why he had to take a second job.
Lay the visor of the cap flat on top of a piece of orange craft felt.
"It was a picture of a helmet with the visor down, and a plane reflected in the visor," Mr. Bruckheimer said of the crystallizing image, which needed a crack advertising man like Tony Scott to sell it.
Bear this in mind before devoting the weekend to fishing through old shoe boxes, in wallets, behind the sun visor of the car, wherever you keep your keepsakes.
Shares of Handspring, the manufacturer of the Visor line of hand-held computers and phone modules, rose 75 cents, or 15.6percentto to $5.56, as the company began selling the Visor in South Korea.
Instead of code-switching ― or shifting their self-presentation in order to blend in ― the visor reflects any antagonistic gazes back at the watcher.
Handspring's older Visor handhelds were distinguished by the proprietary Springboard expansion slot on the back of the device, and dozens of companies built businesses creating unusual devices that could plug in to the Visor.
So I created, for him, the "No Cry Pledge" and wrote the words on the visor in a moment of inspiration: three sentences all of us recited in the parking lot before entering a bowling alley, in which we vowed -- on our dog's life -- that however many gutter balls we threw, we would refrain from flinging ourselves on the floor.
In response to the Visor, Palm Computing palm, the market leader in handhelds, just introduced a line of brightly-colored lower units targeted at younger consumers.
