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  • Too many others, he says, do too many concerts, churn out production-line performances, and prefer to keep things safe rather than engage with new music.

    In praise of … conductors | Editorial 2011

  • Based on techniques learned at Toyota's production-system plants in Japan, where factory workers pull a cord to stop a production-line error, Kaplan and his team instituted a "patient safety alert" system.

    Do No Harm 2010

  • A trade union at the plant was reorganized in an attempt to better represent the employees, and on March 1 this year, it negotiated a 611 yuan pay raise for production-line workers.

    Unions Are Good for Business in China Han Dongfang 2011

  • You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.

    Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009

  • You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The "reign of the production-line American thriller writers" that is being challenged is the crown held by the likes ofJames Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown.

    April 2009 Maxine 2009

  • The "reign of the production-line American thriller writers" that is being challenged is the crown held by the likes ofJames Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown.

    British thriller writers shoot themselves in the feet Maxine 2009

  • The "reign of the production-line American thriller writers" that is being challenged is the crown held by the likes ofJames Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown.

    British thriller writers shoot themselves in the feet Maxine 2009

  • The "reign of the production-line American thriller writers" that is being challenged is the crown held by the likes ofJames Patterson, John Grisham and Dan Brown.

    Publishing Maxine 2009

  • The narrative-as-product paradigm is one which obscures the true nature of the contracts involved, predisposes us to think in terms of production-line employment, and thereby represents exploitative and unwarranted demands on artists as obligations.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010

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