Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi juggle craftiness with kid-innocence, it is partly owing to Kasdan's easy wit and trove of B-movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie that can extend outside the confines of movie genres, with characters whose lives seep outside the screen frame, who persuade the viewer to care about their pasts and futures...
...Calkins laid down the law I felt, and I suspect that many of my colleagues felt, that we had just been shown how limited our role really was. We were not advisers speaking to the Corporation members on an equal plane. Instead we were a collective bother that had to be tolerated so that we would fill the role of deflecting student criticism...
...sale of pipelaying tractors to the Soviets. Most intriguing of all was an offer from Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. He seemed to suggest, for the first time, that the Soviets might now be willing to destroy 81 of their 243 SS-20s in Europe so as to equal the number of British and French missiles targeted at the Soviet Union. He said the U.S.S.R. "would liquidate all the missiles to be reduced...
...bickering began with a blast from Barbara Honegger, a Justice Department aide who had been working on ferreting out sexually biased laws and regulations. Ronald Reagan, who opposes the Equal Rights Amendment, had pledged that eliminating such laws, state as well as federal, would be the cornerstone of his efforts to achieve equal rights for women. Honegger wrote in the Washington Post that the work of her task force had been ignored and that the President's approach was a "sham." Then she resigned...
...caught in Caracas will be banned from the Olympics by their national federa- tions. The U.S. Olympic Commit tee announced last week that spot checks of Americans will be done at all major competitions from now on. And in Los Angeles, says Dr. Daly, "we will have at least equal and perhaps better equipment than was used in Caracas. The message will be: There is no way to beat the system.' " - By Janice Castro. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles