Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself was a bomb of a question: Who had pulled off the nuclear sabotage? An environmental organization calling itself Groupe des Écologistes Français claimed responsibility. No one had ever heard of the group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims. But by imposing a blackout on news of the police investigation, government officials inspired speculation in the press about possible, and some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians working on behalf...
...Angeles on the night of Dec. 13, 1941, six days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The city is engulfed by the fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell...
...company agreed, but only if Greenwald would assume full responsibility for any damages. After all, a spokesman argued, a repairman might be injured during a blackout if he worked on lines that were kept "live" by Greenwald's windmill. Intent on striking a blow against monopolies, Greenwald appealed to the state Public Service Commission. Said he: "People are trying to become more self-sufficient. The windmill is a step in that direction." The commission ruled last week that the utility was being unreasonable in asking Greenwald "to indemnify the company against its own negligence." The commission ordered the utility...
...characters are temperamentally similar. One is macho aggressive, one is flailingly dumb, and one is provokingly prissy. McLure writes with his fist, and his characters punch out at adamant walls. Pvt. Wars takes place in a mental ward for brain-bruised war veterans. In a series of blackout scenes, Richard Bowne, Leo Burmester and Daniel Ziskie place banderillas of rage, revenge and practical jokery in each other's heads, but their heads are the arena from which they will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas...
...side. Throughout her monologue, which goes nowhere leading to nothing, lights flash in the audience. The lighting is, however, painfully predictable; Porter says "There was a flash of light," and, lo, a light flashes. As she talks about everything going black, hey, there just happens to be a blackout. These intermittent flashes light a set dotted by oppressive grey lumps of cardboard and paper mache which hang above the audience like dreary smog drenched clouds...