Upon his arrival in Big Apple, Nate meets the colorful denizens of Manhattan's theater world -- from child prodigies to rigid casting directors and ultra-conniving stage mothers -- but he never looks back on his dreams of Broadway glory.
The entire picture is a third-generation Xerox copy, in part because adapting Mr. Harris's books for the screen seems to turn directors into rigid formalists.
Examples may be: malfunctioning computer system, pharmacy does not deliver in time, director is rigid or absent, not enough beds for planned production, restrictions of budget prohibiting optimal care.
"There's a perception that Orthodox Jews are rigid," said Rabbi Steven Burg, national director of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, an Orthodox group based in New York City.
Warring barons who kept crucial information to themselves, rigid management chains, and a director general in George Entwistle who lacked the means and the will to kick down departmental doors, combined to create chaos and confusion.
With one great technical leap, the fan is freed from the rigid view of the outside-broadcast director.
Old and new have been colliding at the Bolshoi since the late 1980s, when upstart dancers rose up against the longtime artistic director, Yuri Grigorovich, and the rigid Soviet classicism he represented.
Erratic sleep schedules can also happen when people retire and no longer adhere to a rigid timetable, says Dr. Karl Doghramji, medical director of the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University.
The US director was famed for his rigid attention to detail and refusal to compromise.
Sexismometer: 2/10 Jurassic World's real protagonist, according to its director, begins the film almost rigid with bitchiness: hair stiff, lips ambitious, white power suit concealing festering unfeminine soul.
