Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a comforting thought, and the moviegoer feels proud and almost parental for having seen these beguiling youngsters through their difficult teenage years. Good sense suggests, however, that it is prudent not to get too comfortable. Even now, with the battered fortress of adulthood in grave need of repairs, a fresh assault is gathering. Sure as Sony makes videotape, unknown young directors with the artistic sensibility of not-yet-great white sharks are prowling the Taco Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them...
...Washington is the headquarters of U.S. efforts to intervene in foreign- exchange markets, the fortress-like Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the front line. On the seventh floor of the bank's Italianate building on Wall Street, six currency traders carry out the Treasury's instructions. Hunched over a circular desk crowded with jangling phones, they buy and sell dollars at U.S. banks while glancing regularly at overhead monitors that flash currency transactions. "The Fed people just love intervening," says a former Treasury official. "They're like little kids with...
...Brown, 37, who met three years ago while filming The Thorn Birds for TV and ended up turning their onscreen marriage into the real thing. When Rosie made three, nine months ago, the English actress and Australian actor began scheduling their professional work in relays. Ward just finished filming Fortress, an Australian survivalist epic for HBO in which she plays a school marm who is kidnaped and imprisoned along with nine of her charges. "It's Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Lord of the Flies," says Ward, who reports that while mommy was bearing arms on the set, daddy...
...industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield: "The entrance looks like Superman's Fortress of Solitude." Inside, a steep, monumental staircase features antique friezes on one wall, while the opposite side is adorned with massive tubular brass railings...
...called a research center, but the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Research looks more like a fortress. Layers of barbed wire surround the sprawling complex in the dusty hills at Kahuta, 20 miles southeast of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Much of the facility is buried beneath the earth, a precaution against accident -- or perhaps surprise attack. Paratroopers guard the installation, and tanks block all routes into Kahuta. Crotale surface-to- air missiles and antiaircraft guns bristle toward the skies, through which Pakistani air force planes fly round-the-clock patrols. Unauthorized entry to Kahuta is impossible, sightseeing in the vicinity...