Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strode into the Pentagon briefing room to deliver the shocking details to the waiting reporters. He explained that the Vincennes had fired on the plane only after giving it several chances to identify itself. Crowe defended the actions of the Vincennes and its commander, Captain William C. Rogers of Fort Worth, as entirely proper, and said a full investigation would be conducted by Rear Admiral William N. Fogarty...
...Writer-Producer Jeffrey Bloom (who had his name removed from the credits when one episode was finally aired in late May). Among the pilots considered for slots on next fall's network schedule were NBC's The Cheech Show, a comedy-variety series starring Cheech Marin, and CBS's Fort Figueroa, a drama about the multicultural residents of a run-down Los Angeles apartment building. Both were turned down...
Moreover, Wright received an unheard-of royalty of 55% (normal would be 10% to 15%) on sales of an alleged book, a thin and uninteresting collection of random thoughts published by a Fort Worth printer and longtime Wright pal. Some of the buyers have candidly admitted that they bought the book in bulk as a way to make donations to Wright that would have been legally forbidden in any other form...
Then there's Paul Newman's classic Fort Apache, the Bronx. Newman, the aging cop, had to ward off a slew of crime-hungry Puerto Ricans. Commit crimes--that's what Latin Americans like to do, the audience must conclude...
When George Poveromo goes fishing, he doesn't fool around. Entering precise coordinates into the computerized navigation system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves...