Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama revolves around the relationship between Kit (Rebecca Howe) and Milly (Elsie Marks), two school cronies who rival each other inspite of their longstanding friendship. Kit, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, writes quality books that don't sell. Milly, banal and spitefully petty, writes trashy romances that make the bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
...tension that these rivalries create--and the bond that keeps them together--is never developed in the play. When Deidre asks Kit why friendship is so important to her, she answers with seeming disinterest...
...seminars in more than 100 cities around the country for two days following the film's air date. Ground Zero will mail out 100,000 viewing guides. The Center for Defense Information is considering producing a 60-sec. commercial, narrated by Paul Newman, offering "a nuclear war-prevention kit." "I plan to send in for one of those kits," writes Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., "and if Mr. Newman doesn't send me an MX missile, I'm going to report him to the Postal Service people for fraud...
DIED. John Upton, 84, obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in transfusions led him in 1940 to design a portable transfusion kit used by the military during World War II to treat thousands of U.S. and British wounded, and in 1941 to co-found the first U.S. nonprofit community blood bank, the Irwin Memorial, which served as a central supplier of blood and plasma to all hospitals in San Francisco; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...kit includes three diskettes, one which contains the word processing program and two others for storing documents, and an instruction booklet. each document diskette has the capacity for about 200 typed pages...