Word: network
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...except in some newspaper features here and there and a few broadcasts. The most ambitious: Italian state TV's special that its producers hope will include conversations with the cosmonauts aboard the Soviet Salyut 6 space station and the revelers in Washington, via links set up by the network's correspondents in Moscow and the U.S. capital...
...mile elevated rail system that will run north-south through the city. Late last month Atlanta put into operation the first 6.7-mile segment of MARIA (for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority). In the next two years, 13.7 miles of the proposed 53-mile subway-and-elevated train network will be completed...
...urban area, but UMTA has not made any substantial commitments for funds after 1981. MARTA'S advocates are especially fearful, since the Federal Highway Administration plans to widen the expressways next to one main route of the proposed MARTA line. Unless MARTA can grow into a full-fledged network of interlocking routes, it will end up an uneconomic and inconvenient half measure that hould not have been started in the first place...
Occidental moviemakers perceive her as a fashion photographer (Eyes of Laura Mars) or a ratings-mad television executive (Network). But Tokyo Art Director Eiko Ishioka, casting around for a Japanese TV commercial, saw in Faye Dunaway something of Kannon Bosatsu, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Rigged in sail-like goddess attire, the inscrutable pitchperson has no lines, but she kisses and caresses two tiny girls in a fetching commercial for a chain of boutiques, galleries and theaters that airs next month...
Behind the officers--a few of the 500-plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible...