Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studios, movies were products. To audiences, they were cheap entertainment. To actors, directors and producers, they were a paycheck. Why, then, were so many of the movies of 1939 so good? Clearly, something had gone wrong -- or wondrously right -- on the Hollywood assembly line: the studios were not merely churning out moneymaking products, as they thought they were, but a magic that endures to this...
...Topeka, or Twin Falls, Idaho, where most of its inhabitants came from. The movies they made reflected and gained much of their strength from that innocence, and they resounded with a sincerity that no amount of artifice can duplicate. Would any scriptwriter today dare to type a corny line like this? "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." The writers of The Wizard of Oz dared and thereby helped make a great...
...combatants are turning to even more exotic technologies. A small Denver company called Innovisions Research has introduced a line of Stealth attachments, which fasten to the front of an automobile and use microwave- absorbing materials like those in the Stealth bomber to reduce the car's visibility to police radar. The company claims that a speeding vehicle that would normally be detected from 4,000 ft. away may not show up in Smokey's gun until...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...
...context in mind," says Nunn -- a "context" that also caused him to attack the "dictatorship created by lifetime tenure of federal judges." "After the primary," says Nunn, "Maddox was leaning toward supporting my Republican opponent, who was running an ad showing George McGovern with Coretta King over a line about how they were warming Georgia up for me. I counteracted that with Wallace. It was no big deal, and I didn't get involved in actually supporting Wallace for President...