Word: hr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model, actress (with John Wayne in Rio Lobo) and $5-an-hr. script reader, Lansing moved to Fox from Columbia, where she had risen quickly to senior vice president of production...
Gandhi. Richard Attenborough's 3-hr. 20-min. film is a historical epic on the grand scale, but one that touches the heart with its moral earnestness and the marvelous humanity of Ben Kingsley's performance in the title role...
...that satisfying moment was the culmination of the three years he had spent perfecting the technique that made the implant possible, and waiting for a patient who met the rigorous criteria established for implant candidates by the Food and Drug Administration. No wonder DeVries described the 7½-hr. operation as being "almost a spiritual experience...
...discovery, reported in Science, was a serendipitous success for the flight of Columbia in November 1981. That mission had to be cut from 124 hr. to 54 hr. because of a faulty fuel cell, but before aborting the flight, the astronauts were able to complete an experiment with the ship's radar equipment. They took a 50-km-wide scan of the Sahara from the shuttle. Radar waves generally penetrate only a few centimeters of the earth, since the beams are dissipated by moisture in the surface of land. But in the dry Sahara, the radar waves were able...
...stereo with pictures, a 24-hr, cable service that rocks round the clock with contemporary rock 'n' roll. Launched 15 months ago at a cost of more than $20 million, MTV reaches 8.1 million subscribers via satellite across the country and, with the methodical expansion of cable, anticipates adding an estimated 7 million more by late 1983. It is building a reputation as well as an audience. At the National Cable Programming Conference in Los Angeles last week, MTV won an ACE award, cable's equivalent of an Emmy, beating out competition like the Signature interview series...