Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty Seconds is Michael Arlen's close-up pan and dissolve of the people who package desire and fulfillment into half-minute television commercials. As the book suggests, these subplots of our viewing lives are frequently more skillfully made and better remembered than the programs they sponsor. Moreover, the relationships between commercials and fairy tales are too strong to ignore. Princes and Princesses Charming, sturdy folk and innocent children are besieged by malicious forces. Tooth imps and underarm pixies generate embarrassing vapors; gremlins leave grimy stigmata on clothing, and devilkins foul points and plugs. Inevitably, the hapless are rescued...
Instead of a friendly international foray, the four-game series was marked by the Cubans' determination to approximate Saturday night wrestling matches. This was the same Cuban team which broke Kentucky All-American Kyle Macy's jaw in the 1979 Pan-American games...
After not qualifying for the 1975 Pan American Games by one place, the 5-ft., 8-in., 160-pounder erased the word "almost" from his vocabulary by capturing both the three- and ten-meter boards at the 1976 Olympic trials...
...order to cut 60 to 250 lbs. off a jet's weight, Eastern has even stripped the white paint off its fleet, revealing the silvery, polished metal underneath. The fuel saving: almost $1 million per year. Workers are coating the leading edges of some Pan American, Delta and Continental/Air Micronesia jet wings with a plastic substance that cuts down on air friction, reducing drag and saving up to $30,000 a year in fuel costs per aircraft...
...Robbins went from hit to hit. Over two decades he worked with the best stars (Zero Mostel, Barbra Streisand, Judy Holliday, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman) and the best songwriters (Bernstein, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) in classic shows such as The King and I, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing and Gypsy...