Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screenwriter Edward Hume and the film makers were correct in choosing to avoid blaming either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. for the initiation of catastrophe. This moral neutrality may be one reason the network is actually going to broadcast their film, advertisers or not, champions or not, critics or not. Less than 20 years ago, the BBC refused to show Peter Watkins' very similar but far more devastating The War Game because it was "too horrifying." The Day After, nowhere near as strong or as skillful, is still frightening enough, and here it is, occupying more than two hours...
...doesn't beep, bleep, buzz or zap. It is played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
...correct answer has not yet been written by the public. But the early returns are encouraging. For the final answer, buy the 1990 version. By then the game will have become an American classic-or just a trivial footnote...
Others are correct in urging the US to "ponder" our initial placement of Marines in Lebanon. But we must go one step further in admitting that we erred. To withdraw from the war torn country would not be bowing to intimidation, but, rather, a responsible recognition of our mistake...
...least two cases, Japanese victims were declared dead but recovered before they could be buried. Japanese reports confirmed what Davis was told by the bocors: the effect of the poison depends on the dosage; too much will kill "too completely," and resuscitation will be impossible. Even with the correct dose, the bocors said, a zombie must be exhumed within about eight hours or will be lost, presumably to asphyxiation...