Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after school was out. It ended exactly eleven weeks later, the day before the beginning of the fall semester. Producer Allan Carr treated the whole filming as one of his continuous giant parties, and as soon as Travolta bought his DC-3, he flew several members of the crew to Las Vegas for a weekend. There was so much jollity on the Paramount set that Jack Nicholson, who was making Goin' South on the next sound stage, sent over a note: "Listen, either put me in the movie, or turn off the noise." The whole thing, says Travolta...
...characteristically flamboyant maneuver to steal the presidential show, Indira Gandhi appeared across town to harangue 5,000 people assembled under a vast, multicolored tent. Ostensibly, the meeting was a convention of India's Congress Party. In fact, it was a gathering of party rebels reinforced by a motley crew of men hired to provide applause for the discredited former Prime Minister...
...hotel manager of the Norwegian-owned Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Sun Viking: "The aim is to inundate people with pleasure and keep it coming all the time." On New Year's Eve, the Sun Viking departed Miami for a two-week cruise, carrying 792 revelers, a crew of 318 and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury. Reported Woodbury from Puerto Rico, three days and 21 meals later: "Desire lurks at every turn. The important questions of life as one peruses each day's activity sheet are reduced to which luncheon to sample, which deck tourney to enter, whether...
...they are lucky, no one will remember a single one of the six when the game is over. They are the game officials, part-timers, in real life accountants, schoolteachers, salesmen and executives, whose only claim to football fame can be infamy. This year's Super Bowl officiating crew will be operating in the unwelcome glare of a spotlight created by two highly debatable, and debated, calls made by their colleagues in two crucial games-most notably the A.F.C. title match. Both calls involved plays that when viewed-and viewed, viewed, viewed-in instant replay, appeared to be goal...
...this Sunday. Two retired N.F.L. referees who have been there before, Norm Schachter (three Super Bowls) and Tommy Bell (two Super Bowls), last week reflected on the techniques and pratfalls of the official's craft: Schachter on Super Bowl preparation On the Friday before the game, the crew meets with McNally and goes over all the mechanics, just like a pregame conference. They will go over what each guy does in certain situations, the things they have to be careful about. But not the teams; we never discuss the teams. We never say, "Watch Dallas' right tackle...