Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climbing back to the top, Paramount has made more use than other studios of extra postproduction filming and so-called research screening: assessing the opinions of preview audiences to fine-tune movies for consumer appeal. Early audience reaction persuaded the studio to beef up the love interest in Top Gun and rework completely the ending of Pretty in Pink. In the past, extensive additional film work was regarded as a "stigma," says a former Paramount executive. "But Paramount has done it consistently on almost every movie this year, with the exception of Star Trek...
...request to "sensitive hostage negotiations." Some on Capitol Hill have charged that the content of Meese's request suggests that he had some idea of the connection between the Iran deals and the contras almost a month before he revealed it publicly. But Meese says he made his appeal at the behest of Poindexter, who told him that Southern Air was involved in carrying out a secret U.S. mission in the Middle East but who did not mention the diversion of funds to the contras...
...Praise God!" Newton was also in a thankful mood after a federal jury in Las Vegas found NBC guilty of defaming him on news programs and awarded him $19.2 million in damages. Broadcasts in 1980 and 1981 linked the entertainer to organized-crime figures. NBC indicated that it would appeal the verdict. Said Newton to all his fans: "I just want to take this very rare and wonderful moment in my life from me and mine to wish you a very merry Christmas...
...taken prisoner. Under different circumstances, Azcona might have overlooked the Nicaraguan indiscretion, just as he has ignored more than 60 other Sandinista incursions this year alone. But with the Iran-contra scandal swirling in Washington, the Honduran President was plainly seeking reassurance from the White House. His appeal for U.S. help seemed designed to gauge whether the arms scandal had shaken the Reagan Administration's support for the rebels. More important, it tested U.S. resolve to come to the aid of cooperative allies in the region on short notice. Admitted one source close to the Azcona government: "Irangate has unnerved...
...into the top job in Congress last week than he called for a delay in reducing the top rate called for in the new tax-reform bill. Congressional Republicans and the Administration jumped all over him, and fellow Democrats recoiled in dismay, hearing echoes of Walter Mondale's disastrous appeal for a tax increase during the 1984 campaign. Though Wright's proposal would apply only to couples with taxable incomes exceeding $150,000, a tax hike of any kind seemed an impolitic opening gambit...