Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Robert Day. His idea of high drama is to end a scene with a close-up of characters getting up from a couch. The only animated figure on-screen is Charles Grodin, playing Burnett's husband: he charges through the movie in a quite understandable state of panic...
...floating powder keg needs only a spark to explode. It soon gets one, as Mia Farrow shows up again and boards the cruise. One night in the saloon she shoots her ex-lover in the leg, dropping the gun on the floor in panic. The doctor leads Fiance away, while the socialite's companion (a nurse) looks after Mia. When the Marxist goes for the gun, it's missing. Next morning, Ridgeway is found shot, with a J drawn in blood on the wall next to her. But it can't be Jackie, who was in sight of the nurse...
...Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race as a campaign issue has had its day, there are other issues that play on the hopes and fears of working class whites...
...precarious structure held together largely by paste, baling wire and confidence in the dollar, since it is the currency in which most international deals are made and which central banks keep in their vaults as reserves. During recent runs on the dollar, the first signs of financial panic could be seen. World money markets now resemble the urban ghettos of the 1960s, when a random traffic ticket or barroom scuffle could set off days of bloody rampages. The most implausible rumors out of Washington or the Middle East cause currency jitters and a dollar fall...
Because Coop officials were worried that the patrons might panic if they knew of the bomb scare, they announced over the public address system that the evacuation was due to "construction problems," Agababian said...