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Word: infernos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China Syndrome is not a disaster film in the style of The Towering Inferno nor Earthquake--it doesn't even rely on ritual seduction scenes to cement the plot. Lemmon and Fonda portray characters who are average people, holding perhaps better-than-average jobs, who act heroically when the circumstances demand it. Fonda is very believable as a success-oriented member of the "Me Generation," at first frustrated far more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Countdown To Meltdown... | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Hollywood too, calamity pays. From Earthquake to The Towering Inferno and The Last Wave disaster flicks have been the most profitable genre of the 1970s. Nor is the deluge tapering off. Coming attractions include: Meteor and The Day the World Ended (by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Deluge of Disastermania | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...group of people with a useful technology that could change things for the better," he says. Today he is the church's Minister of Public Affairs and the drummer for "Inferno," a rock band...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Scientology's Way: Linking Soul and Science | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

This weekend Ivy League football season begins in earnest for the Crimson, and if last Saturday's game is any sort of indication, for the next few Saturdays Harvard Stadium should be a football inferno...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Crimson Gridders Paste Colgate, 24-21 | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...growls and all, to his mansion in Colorado. She outwits him, however, dumps him into his swimming pool, and runs away?a long, long way to California. She climbs up mountains and falls down mountains, crosses deserts, rivers and seemingly impenetrable barriers, and rescues a kitten from a flaming inferno. Does she make it back to California and her family? Well, you'll just have to see the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lassie's Back | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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