Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various curved approaches toward separate electronic "gates." MLS will thus permit more efficient use of runways by different types of aircraft and will give controllers greater choice in routing planes away from built-up areas. And because it operates at higher frequency, it is less influenced by buildings and local geography...
...character, known as Johnny Kovak, is introduced as a hot-tempered youth unloading trucks in a warehouse in 1937. He is alleged to have such a charismatic way with his co-workers that his rise from organizer in a feeble and cowardly truckers' union to president of his local, his regional council, and then of the entire international virtually needs no further explanation. But really it does, since one must assume that if we in the audience cannot quite make out Stallone's moronic mumblings, the guys in the union halls may possibly have the same difficulty. This...
Here's what happens. Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) is a lovely and virtuous young widow who marries a dull fellow, the local pharmacist (Mauro Mendonca). To her pretty confusion, the ghost of her randy first husband Vadinho (Jose Wilker) returns to torment her. He was a cad, a drunk and a gambler, who dropped dead from too much carnival carousing, and his only redeeming quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would...
...certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl for the favors of the girls. Postpubescent lads, like the winning Aggie football team, matriculate to manhood here under expert tutelage. The prevailing tuition fee is $3. "That's back in the days of Roosevelt nooky, not Carter coffee," says one character who clearly intends...
Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming the Bible thumpers and incriminating the pols till they close down the Chicken Ranch...