Word: omen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loeb Production The Omen Corner...
...that message on a sampler and nail it on the wall, because there is little love between Donner and Producer Spengler. Already Richard Lester, who directed both Musketeers, has been brought in as "consultant," a move that can only give pause to Donner, whose one major credit is The Omen. Donner further frets that Superman's superhype may backfire. "Look what happened to King Kong and The Great Gatsby," he moans. "I keep telling the producers to just let the picture open with only normal advertising. It'll sell itself...
...further ill omen: troops on both sides may be getting trigger-happy. U.S. observers monitoring the disengagement in the Sinai buffer zone have reported to Washington that Israeli and Egyptian units have fired at each other during the course of maneuvers over the past two months...
Coach Michael Horn found a good omen in the squadron's victory. "Every time we win the Owen Trophy, we go on to do well in the Northeastern championships," he noted confidently...
...catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...