Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if the western-in-outer-space images are not there, neither is the thoughtful intelligence which you would expect to substitute for an overkill of laser fire and death stars. Star Trek: The Motion Picture deals with deep issues in a surface manner--probably the result of compromise with film executives who were afraid of too much cerebral content in a G-rated film being released at Christmas time. (An original story by Roddenberry and science fiction Guru Harland Ellison was rejected by Paramount because it dealt with the identity...
...evil in Arlie lies deep in most people. Some sociologists would blame environment, others individual psychology for turning a kid into a killer. But Americans have not yet decided what to do with the criminal. Getting Out explores not only evil but the failures of the American system to prepare an inmate for a life beyond bars. Tautly written and brilliantly acted, Getting Out vividly breaks free of the insidious revived camp that plagues much of New York theater this year...
...Burns had just been called for charging when the hustling Tom Murray latched onto the puck deep in the UNH zone. He played catch with defenseman Mitch Olson at the point, then spotted Dave Brook all alone in the slot. The sophomore center calmly banked in a shot off the far post for his first goal of the season...
...locale is Africa. Reporters are bee-swarming on the scent of deep trouble in the emergent nation of Kambawe. The dictator, President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans...
...news and of news that is made anonymously by the very same people. This arrangement, convenient to all sides, can also be worrisome. Much of the punditry of Washington columnists and the daily run of informed content in newspapers, newsmagazines and on the air is based on anonymity. A Deep Throat may happen along only once in a decade, but in Washington a lot of shallow throats and wagging tongues are in action all the time...