Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business world. His uncle (Richard Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring, let's kick it into high gear. Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly $7.8 million its first weekend...
...fondly Dewitt remembers that one summer when he threw his gear on the back of his Harley chopper and took off across the country in search of "it." What "it" was Dewitt did not know, but it seemed to be cropping up everywhere. Some people were "with it." Others were hopelessly "out of it." Young people everywhere were "doing it," while those adroit with their hands were apparently "making it." For a full year, Dewitt drove, searching for this priceless commodity, pausing only to read a passage from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (no help for a busted...
...according to Haggerty, the Crimson was not even in full gear yesterday. "We gave away points on the shot and the discus [and] we held Erin Sugrue out of the triple jump," Haggerty said. "It's very important before the Heptagonals and after the Penn Relays [held last week] to keep constant attention to injuries...
...long-known and festering problem of the new U.S. embassy compound in Moscow, which was nearing completion when work was halted in 1985. Built from prefabricated sections produced off the site -- and out of sight of any U.S. inspectors -- the chancery, not surprisingly, was found riddled with embedded snooping gear. Charged Texas Republican Congressman Dick Armey: "It's nothing but an eight- story microphone plugged into the Politburo...
...arrival next week of Secretary of State George Shultz are finding so many sophisticated Soviet sensors that the entire communications system may have to be replaced. The once secure "bubble," a shielded room within a room, will have to be rebuilt. Shultz will take special mobile communications gear with...