Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another despite adversity. Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and several others from the original provide the pilots and ground control technicians necessary to foul up the flight and embody running jokes. But placed in the nebulous future, this year's doom-bent flight takes places aboard a computer-controlled lunar shuttle, with a bow to 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...detailed as the rest of Pakula's work, the events it depicts could have been narrated by Sophie in a few minutes, and should have been. (The film runs about 2½ hours.) But Sophie is not the only obsessed person in this romantic trinity: Nathan has his lunar side too, which flashes on and off at unexpected intervals. Kevin Kline is an engaging actor who can play both ends of passion, the delightful and the deranged. He cannot play both simultaneously-who could?-and his character suggests two halves of an incoherent whole...
...with the Midas touch arrived on the Dayton campus in the fall of 1977 to take over a football program that had not had a winning season since man had touched lunar turf. That first year, the team went 8-3 Then 9-2-1 Then 8-2-1 And in 1980. Rick Carter arrived on the national scene by coaching the Flyers to a 140 mark and the NCAA Division 3 National Championship, including a 63-0 win over Ithaca in the finals...
...with $32,000, into one of the country's largest defense contractors (1981 sales: $1.95 billion); in Manhasset, N.Y. During World War II Grumman Hellcats, Wildcats and Avengers chalked up 60% of the enemy kills on the Pacific front. Grumman's company was working on the lunar excursion module when, in 1966, diabetic and almost blind, the avid ex-pilot retired as board chairman...
Were there other questions worth asking in that turbid decade-about wars, revolutions, anything more dramatic than a lunar hemline? There were, but few seem interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf...