Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball glove and a towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and will be linked by bridges to the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Passersby will peer at 140-ft.-high aquariums and view scenes from Hollywood films projected on large silver screens...
These days the life of recuperating Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 69, is more Hollywood soap opera than Greek tragedy. His countrymen are regaled almost daily with tattle about his highly public love affair with Olympic Airways flight attendant Dimitra Liani, 34, and contentious divorce from American wife Margaret, 64, after 37 years of marriage. Liani, not Margaret, tended his bedside during recent surgery...
...Hollywood' s annual search for holiday hits and critics' awards, a pair of romantic comedies are on target, while two ambitious dramas misfire and a cops- and- drugs thriller shoots blanks...
Thanks to the efforts of the Harvard Alcohol Project, networks and Hollywood studios have begun a massive media campaign--using stars like Sajak--to "change American social norms relating to drinking and driving," says Director of the Project Jay A. Winsten...
...Project's efforts have resulted in the three big TV networks broadcasting anti-drunk driving announcements up to 20 times per week this holiday season. The Project's public service ads will occupy air time that Winsten estimates is worth $100,000,000. In addition, Winsten persuaded 13 Hollywood television studios to include lines of dialogue encouraging use of the designated driver in the scripts of many prime-time shows...