Over that time it has evolved from a trailblazing showcase for unadorned Tuscan cooking to something of a downtown Elaine's, with a proprietor, Silvano Marchetto, practiced at coddling stars and manufacturing his own luster.
It was still pitch-dark outside the Star Corrugated Box manufacturing plant in Queens yesterday morning when Dominick Jacino, a 59-year-old trucker, showed up for work.
In the end, the record business is about spotting, nurturing and manufacturing stars.
Exports in October fell by 12% compared with the same month last year; hundreds of small textile firms have gone out of business; even some of the stars of Indian manufacturing of recent years, in the automotive industry, have suspended production.
China's four telecommunications manufacturing stars -- Huawei, ZTE, Julong and Datang -- all invest more than 10percentt of their revenue into research and development, a substantial share by international standards.
The Kampfe brothers, who started out in the cutlery business, began manufacturing the Star Safety Razor in 1875 in a one-room shop in New York City, according to the exhibition.
But in manufacturing the stars tend to be experts in automated, capital-intensive production.
Lette, Fanny and his co-workers soon learn how very efficacious stunning good looks can be, as he becomes a veritable star in the plug-manufacturing world, and the object of ravenous sexual attention from men and women alike.
Crowdfunding, low cost components, rapid prototyping, scalable manufacturing – the stars have aligned perfectly to facilitate a golden age for innovative hardware solutions – but roadblocks still remain.
As Jeanine Basinger amply demonstrates in "The Star Machine," Hollywood excelled at manufacturing Dennis Morgans.
And he paused to dwell on the new reality: that manufacturing is a star performer and oil a bit player in his country.
