Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...science fiction, and he may have a point. The movie's conception is pure Hitchcock?on an intergalactic scale. The hero, Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), is a Middle American variant on the kind of man-in-the-middle played by Gary Grant and James Stewart in films like North by Northwest and Vertigo. A power-company worker who lives with his wife (Teri Garr) and three kids in Muncie, Ind., Roy is engulfed one night by phenomena he cannot understand: searing lights burn him from above, a road sign shakes and twists, the contents of his truck move about in violent...
...will have become obsolete and dangerous to operate. Short of welding shut the entrances and placing the facilities under guard forever, the only solution is to dismantle them and bury the pieces. The difficulty of the task is now being underscored in the desolate Santa Susana Mountains, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, where a small Government-built experimental generator is being torn down...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This film version of Ken Kesey's fable about a lunatic asylum in the Pacific Northwest lacks all the subtlety and tension that marked the novel in its best moments. But it does offer a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson perfectly cast as Randle Patrick McMurphy, the hard-living con man who sparks the inmates to rebel against the psychologically castrating Head Nurse only to find himself out-conned...
...Canada have engaged in considerable bargaining about the project. More unusual, a relatively small and unknown company beat out the giants of the North American gas industry to win the contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested competitors, including the Canadian subsidiaries of Gulf, Exxon and Shell, McMillian...
...Northwest was a last-minute starter in the competition. Ironically, Northwest had been a division of El Paso until 1974, when the Justice Department forced El Paso to divest itself of Northwest, and McMillian managed to gain control. Two years later, McMillian entered the pipeline race, and he learned fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian...