Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminal and civil laws. In Kuwait, a revised version of the Shari'a is being adopted in the legal code of that oil-rich desert state. Responding to a groundswell of Muslim fundamentalism, Egypt's People's Assembly is also debating the imposition of the Shari'a, which could close down the bars, nightclubs and gambling casinos that glitter along Cairo's Pyramid Road...
...noted for its zealous enforcement of the Shari'a. But there is a widening gap between the very rich and very poor, a heavy influx of foreign workers, and a pace of development that may be too rapid for an underpopulated country to handle. Although the Wahhabi leaders have close links to the royal family, there is a small Islamic movement that is critical of the debauchery of spoiled princelings on their sojourns outside the country and that challenges the dynasty's claim to be the sole spokesman for Islam. Tapes by a Kuwaiti scholar, Dr. Abdullah Nafisi, attacking...
...this movie will come out. And yes, I'm scared. I'm like the Cowardly Lion, and two successes back to back have not strengthened my belief in my ability to deliver." Surely that Cowardly Lion can't be Director Steven Spielberg, whose blockbusters, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, have already grossed $630 million. It is, however, and he has an explanation for his chattering teeth: "All the movies I've made are different. Jaws was not like Close Encounters, and neither has any bearing...
Spielberg began working on the picture before Close Encounters. His pal John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) brought around two young writers with their script about the California invasion scare. "I gagged on it," Spielberg recalls, "but I was leery. When a script is so funny that you gag, that's really the kiss of death because it usually doesn't film that way." But when Milius backed out he took it on. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the scriptwriters, flew to the Close Encounters location in Alabama and the three would rearrange schemes and characters. Says...
Strangely, when Paley pleads his own 3 inability as a television lord to make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give...