Word: blackout
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...eight corpses litter the stage. Hans Tobeason's flaming lights are freed at last from the black drapes of deception, blinding the audience further. Edgar, Kent and Albany blink unbelievingly at the holocaust at their feet. We wait for a blackout and a curtain...
...claws." Hoglund, an art director for More, the now defunct journalism review, has done plenty of fast cover drafting since he joined TIME in 1977. "Disaster and late-breaking cover stories have a way of striking whenever Walter is away," he says. "First, the New York City blackout in 1977; next, the election of Pope John Paul I; then, the Jonestown massacre. Last March we joked that nuclear disaster would arrive during his next vacation, and, sure enough, that's when Three Mile Island happened...
...Tehran earlier this year, and so he was returning to familiar territory when he rushed to Tehran from Beirut immediately on hearing of the capture of the hostages. Among the problems he faced on his return: unruly mobs, intermittent breaks in telephone and telex communications, and a power blackout that forced him to type one long report by flashlight. Arriving in Iran under extraordinary conditions, however, is not new for Van Voorst: nine months ago he was on the same plane with the Ayatullah Khomeini on his triumphal return from exile outside Paris...
...will keep running, no matter now much nitrogen dioxide comes out. The recommendations call for close monitoring of the plant's emissions, a state mandate to turn the diesels off if emission levels are exceeded and a backup utility contract to protect the schools and hospitals from an energy blackout in case the diesels are shut off. The state, at all costs, can not acquiesce to MATEP's pleas for leniency. If the diesels exceed levels the DEQE has determined to be safe, the diesels must be shut down...
...counselors (Murray for the boys and Kate Lynch for the girls) are introduced, the film meanders aimlessly. Half the time, Meatballs forgets to exploit the gags that it so laboriously sets up. No sooner do we learn, for instance, that Camp Northstar is in the throes of a power blackout or a parents' day than the film veers off on an unrelated tangent...