Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pity. Things that go along the walls, like sofas and a few exquisite desks and console tables by two 18th century French ebenistes, Riesener and Weisweiler, remain; in furniture, the tastes of George IV and William IV ran more to Paris than to London. There are also some 1960s vintage electric heaters sitting in the fireplaces, just as they do in every bed-sitter in the realm, a homely touch that suggests both the impossibility of heating Buck House and EIIR's bond with her subjects...
...period in which the U.S. space program was all but stalled. The current fleet of American launch vehicles -- including the shuttle that balked on launch in mid-August and the Titan IV launcher that exploded in midair 11 days before that -- were built from blueprints drawn in the 1960s and '70s, a lifetime ago in terms of research into materials, semiconductors and computer design...
McCaw is itself the product of a series of acquisitions. The company grew out of a string of cable-television businesses that was put together in the 1960s by J. Elroy McCaw. After their father's sudden death in 1969, Craig and his brothers built a cable empire that they finally sold in 1987 to Jack Kent Cooke for $755 million. The McCaws had switched their focus to cellular, becoming initial bidders for cellular-telephone licenses after the Federal Communications Commission opened up that business to competition in the early 1980s. McCaw's big break came in 1986, when...
...best measure of this movie's merits is that the cross-reference that springs most readily to mind is another well-made current movie. But everyone knows The Fugitive derives its title, protagonist and basic situation from the 1960s television series in which David Janssen, as the luckless Kimble, was pursued across many years and many states by Barry Morse's implacable detective. It was Les Miserables in prime time, and that overtone is lost in this adaptation, which compresses the pursuit and confines it mostly to Chicago. But the tension and realism that result from permitting Kimble less running...
...that viewers won't see. All three networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film Goodfellas this season, complete with an introduction by director Martin Scorsese...