Word: nearly
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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...
After bringing his three stars together in the tense sequence early in the film, director and co-screenwriter James Bridges tells three separate stories for the rest of the film. Godell tries to unscramble the reasons for the near-catastrophe. Wells's boss kills her story, and locks the film in the vault, but she keeps trying--unsuccessfully--to convince him to let her do hard news. Adams, meanwhile, steals the film to figure out what really happened at the plant and get the story out. As in any good thriller, these three stories become increasingly intertwined and finally come...
...PAST month and a half, six young black women have been found murdered near their homes in the Roxbury and South End areas. Four of the women, Christine Ricketts, age 15, Andrea Foye, age 17, Gwendoyln Yvette Stinson, age 15, and Caren Prater, age 25, were found within eight days of each other. At first, the murders received little attention from the media and the police. Gwen Stinson's mother notified local police when she became aware of her daughter's uncharacteristic absence. When they failed to respond to her plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers...
...bribed their parents into sending them to Europe by promising to study at a university, 200 American high school students were sitting in a lecture hall awaiting another lecture on British politics. Past lectures given by members of different political parties, cabinet ministries and interest groups had been nowhere near as exciting as the non academic hours the students had spent exploring Macbeth's Glamis castle and the romantic lochs. But the students quickly realized that this lecture would be different...
...losses and finished the season with victories over MIT, Dartmouth and Yale and a strong showing in the national six-man championships. But the losses to Penn and Princeton seem indelible and leave a question mark on the possibilities of a Crimson national title next year or in the near future...