Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the hour is over. The plots whiz by with a minimum of exposition, the dialogue is tough and spare, the rock music almost nonstop. Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...
...another putative mercy-killing case, the independently elected Florida cabinet refused 4, to 2, to approve Governor Bob Graham's recommendation that Roswell Gilbert, 76, be freed while he appeals his life sentence for killing his ailing 73-year-old wife last March. Gilbert, said Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis, "took an action I don't believe society can condone. The law does not give one person the right to kill another because of illness...
...school districts throughout the country, children with AIDS are at the center of growing concern, conflict and confusion. Despite the intensity of , the emotions involved, only 183 people under the age of 18 in 23 states have been diagnosed as AIDS victims. Indiana, Florida, Connecticut, Texas and Los Angeles have issued guidelines allowing children with AIDS to attend school, but few if any are actually in classrooms. In Los Angeles the policy has yet to be enforced. Says Associate Superintendent Jerry Halverson: "There has been an agreement and understanding that children with AIDS would not be enrolled in school, predicated...
Migration drained the Frostbelt in the late 1970s. More than 1 million New Yorkers, for example, packed their suitcases and headed for the Sunbelt between 1975 and 1980, 375,000 of them bound for Florida. But in the past two years, states that were once synonyms for exhaustion have had small revivals: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan have gained population...
...with police work; he was fleeing financial pressures (he owed $2,000 to a woman friend and was behind on alimony payments to his ex-wife). Where might the hefty, 5-ft. 11-in. chief have gone? He had a soft spot for San Francisco. He had spoken of Florida. And he had long been obsessed with Burnt Cabins, Pa., a hamlet about 60 miles southwest of Harrisburg that according to Wiley had been the scene of a bizarre crime in 1965 and was the setting of his novel in progress...