Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IMAGINE, if you can, a film like All the President's Men. Woodward and Bernstein, however, have become a woman television reporter and cameraman, and instead of bringing down a president, they're hot on the trail of a near-disaster at a nuclear power plant that almost destroyed Southern California. They've even found a new "Deep Throat": a control-room supervisor at the plant who fears that the accident may happen again, and go out of control. The result is a race against the clock, against the utility company that runs the plant, and against the television station...
THAT MAKES The China Syndrome work as a thriller are its fine details. The nuclear control room set was designed by the man who re-created The Washington Post newsroom in All the President's Men; the T.V. studio and control room were from a real Los Angeles station. (Fonda's anchorman was played by an L.A. anchorman apparantly well-versed in the "Happy News" style.) The plot is well-crafted, and doesn't fall into the predictable action cliches that mar most current action/suspense films...
...talk squash. Sure, I know the season has been over for nearly a month, but it's only March 19 and technically there are still two days left in the winter season. Besides, with Princeton once again copping the national title, Harvard men's squash enthusiasts have some serious things to think about in the off-season...
...Carter was talking in private about calling another Camp David summit meeting with Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat. There was a compulsion in his mannerism as if something drew him to the mountain, so much so that he hardly considered that the two men would turn him down. His next move was to enlarge his personal commitment, to get on the phone to Sadat, to invite Begin to the White House for a personal and intimate conference. Carter conferred, joined Begin in a Sabbath dinner, asked the Prime Minister back to the White House...
Usually only women are strip-searched in Chicago; men are generally given a pat-down while clothed. Says A.C.L.U. Attorney Lois Lipton: "This practice cut across racial lines, ethnic lines, age lines, religious lines. The only thing these women had in common was that they were women." In fact, one female plaintiff was at the police station accompanying a male friend who had been arrested. Although she was never charged with a crime, she was stripped and searched...