Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elections. For their part, the elusive guerrillas launched a countercampaign under such slogans as "No to the Electoral Farce; Yes to the People's War." Despite an F.M.L.N. promise to avoid disrupting the elections, roving guerrilla bands occupied remote towns and set up roadblocks along the country's central Pan American Highway, confiscating from passers-by the national identity cards needed to cast ballots. In the regional center of San Miguel, the rebels managed to destroy an aircraft carrying ballot boxes to local polling places. On Saturday, guerrillas ambushed and killed a contingent of 30 Salvadoran soldiers and national guardsmen...
...most applauded writers of his generation; he ended in Hollywood writing unproduced scripts, repudiating his old colleagues and furnishing names to the House Un-American Activities Committee when it came to investigate the film industry. As evidence of his political rightness, Odets showed the Congressmen a pan of Awake and Sing! in the New Masses: "A situation is created out of nothing just to get across a wisecrack." That is not an entirely unfair appraisal. Odets' single authentic tragedy was the one that occurred offstage. -By Stefan Kanfer
...soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. The parallels are as obvious as they are misleading...
...home the right to tape off a common carrier," said Ed Asner, head of the Screen Actors Guild But Walt Disney Studios and Universal City Studios could imagine all that and more. When Sony corporation first introduced video cassette recorders (VCR's), the same people who brought you Peter Pan and Donald Duck and his alleged "nephews" hauled Sony, four Betamax retailers, an advertising agency, and an individual Betamax owner into court for copyright infringement...
...Pan Am's directors hired Acker, believing that his skill at turning Air Florida from a small intrastate carrier into a profitable, regional airline was just what Pan Am needed. Acker swiftly integrated the staffs of Pan Am and National and restructured the airline's routes, dropping some cities but adding 24 more. He got rid of money-losing air freighters and put fuel-efficient Boeing 737s on flights in Europe. Pan Am's remaining 28,000 employees (vs. 36,000 in 1980) were persuaded to take a 10% pay cut. Meanwhile, the airline poured $25 million...