Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the movie is not scheduled for release by Universal Pictures until this fall, a storm of protest has already begun. At a press conference last week, a group of conservative Christian ministers demanded that the studio destroy all copies of the film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking...
Some experts now look for Managua to launch an offensive to destroy the contras, perhaps as soon as early August. Government newspapers and radio stations have begun a drum roll of reports proclaiming that "the people" are demanding action against the rebels. An all-out attack by Nicaragua's 70,000- strong army would catch the contras at their weakest. Cut adrift by their U.S. patrons and torn by internal feuding, the guerrillas barely resemble a credible fighting force. About 6,000 rebels remain in Honduras, where the government is increasingly eager to see them leave, or are camped along...
...have reached the Applegate of my years. Metaphorically, my bat speed has slowed, my reflexes have begun to dim and more than a stride has been lost going down the line to first. That may help explain why I follow with such fascination and dread the fortunes of the last four big league ballplayers who are older than I am. By daring to stop time for at least one more summer, these final four have become my personal antidotes to middle age, even as I chart their downward slide in the arithmetic of the box scores and the formulaic prose...
...probably will not tell a soul before the convention, including Barbara Bush . . . I have not really begun to contemplate running mates...
Both American and Soviet behavioral scientists have begun to investigate small-group dynamics, which are likely to assume considerable significance during extended spaceflight. "There are always minor irritations involved in working with other people," says Psychologist Clay Foushee, of NASA's Ames Research Center. "Normally, these are not a problem because you can get up and move away. The trouble occurs when you can't leave a situation." That trouble can become catastrophic. Long Antarctic expeditions, which involve small groups isolated for months, have been marred by fights and occasional violence...