Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson that good, or is the ECAC that bad...
...snub by declaring it had already announced its intention the preceding Friday to pull out of late nightchatter competition by canceling both the columnist's show and one featuring Dick Cavett. The network said, however, it had not been able to locate Breslin in time to deliver the bad news. Says the combative newspaperman: "Most people grovel in front of the networks. Here was somebody telling them exactly what to do, and they just don't understand. They act like they're personally insulted...
...Alamo. Even before filming began, Redford was daunted by the task of rendering John Nichols' 1974 novel into a suitable screenplay. "There were several attempts made," he recalls. "It was very, very difficult." Then, shortly after arriving on location in New Mexico last summer, Redford was buffeted by bad weather and stormy relations with the locals. He was forced to move the shooting from Chimayo, a community 20 miles north of Santa Fe, to nearby Truchas, after property owners objected to the presence of a movie crew in their quiet, residential area. Next came a lawsuit by rival filmmakers claiming...
Trekkies are the Moonies of pop culture. Since the tatty sci-fi series Star Trek went off the air in 1969, they have devoted themselves with canonical fervor to annotating and explicating the 79 episodes. To Trekkies it matters not that the show was bad science and worse fiction, or that its actors, outfitted in futuristic Dr. Dentons, read their portentous lines with nitwit solemnity. The show's only soaring spin-off was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), in which the cast took a back seat to a splendid special-effects light show that made an eloquent case...
...bad news just keeps coming. A leading shipbuilder announces that nearly 40% of its workers will be laid off, and those who keep their jobs will have to take 10% salary cuts and a 50% slash in their usual year-end bonuses. Thousands of steelworkers are idle, as mammoth steel furnaces stand silent. Coal mines are closing, and even some automobile assembly lines are shut down...