Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describe the present consensus for military spending is "fragile." Congress and the nation will strongly support increased military outlays?if the Administration sets clear priorities for a sustained build up. But that support will be quickly lost if the rearmament program is perceived as nothing more than a crash attempt to solve America's serious national defense problems by merely throwing money at them...
...military, that Timerman's arrest was due to his connections with a mysterious Jewish Argentine financier, David Graiver, who is suspected of having acted as a banker for left-wing terrorists. Graiver, who owned 45% of Timerman's La Opinion, apparently died in a mysterious Mexican airplane crash in 1976. Timerman, however, indignantly points out that he was held prisoner for two years after Argentine authorities declared that there was nothing illegal in his relationship with Graiver. Timerman insists that his ordeal was based on his newspaper's espousal of human rights policies...
...first scene reveals Prospero (Raul Julia) twirling the propeller of a toy helicopter. By seeming Raul Julia design, a real helicopter circled the theater at the opening. The pilot soon flew away, leaving the toy plane, and the play, to crash. The idea apparently was to contrast the airborne with the earthbound in human nature. Here, as in the other main metaphors of the drama, like the playoff of illusion and reality, the power of art and the art of power, this Tempest is hopelessly...
...believe that the plot is convoluted, savor this: Air Force One is hijacked by the National Liberation Front for America and crashes into Manhattan Island, which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader...
...himself as simply W (no period) Mitchell. (He was born William John Schiff III in Philadelphia, but adopted his stepfather's name.) For the past four years, the wheelchair-bound Mitchell, 38, who was badly burned in a motorcycle accident ten years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will be removed every day for 20 or 30 years, Mitchell forecasts an onslaught of people, noise, grit and crime. Says he: "There...