Word: petersen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven nominations for Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, the Academy seems ready to forgive Edwards for his 1981 satire on Hollywood, S.O.B. And for the fifth spot in the Best Director category, the nominators picked a name virtually out of the blue - or, rather, out of the deep -Wolfgang Petersen, the young German film maker who directed Das Boot...
Counterespionage agents have turned up more compelling evidence of the KGB role in the Soviet peace offensive. For several years, Danish intelligence monitored numerous secret meetings between Arne Petersen, a Danish peace activist and writer, and three KGB agents. According to the Danish Ministry of Justice, the KGB promised to help finance advertisements officially sponsored by Petersen and signed by prominent Danish artists who wanted Scandinavia to be declared a nuclear-free zone. In November 1981, Norway expelled a suspected KGB agent who had offered bribes to Norwegians to get them to write letters to newspapers denouncing the deployment...
...auto industry. After almost four years of slumping sales, soaring layoffs, and losses that at one point reached $5.2 billion, executives of the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler) have grown understandably wary of predicting almost any sort of recovery at all. Ford President Donald Petersen bluntly asserts: "There are no signs whatsoever of an upturn yet." Last week automakers reported a 13.4% sales rise during the mid-September period as compared with depressed 1981 levels. But analysts noted that the gain was something of an aberration, coming largely from temporary price promotions to customers...
...Henry Petersen, 61, head of Justice Department's criminal division. Used by Nixon to keep tabs on Watergate investigation. "I've got Petersen on a short leash," Nixon bragged on tape. Partner in Hundley & Cacheris, Washington law firm that defended Mitchell in conspiracy trial...
...course, the implications of being shut up in a simultaneously phallic and womb like ship, looking wistfully at snapshots of the mountainous fatherland while sinking helplessly deeper and deeper under the sea are there for those who want to explore them. But Petersen concentrates on the nitty gritty of maintaining a ship through attack after attack; his pacing maintains excitement without fail. The same limits of space that enhance the scenes of suspense, where we must suffer with the crew, listening to the watery ping of sonar gingerly feeling out the submarine before it is slammed by bombs, might have...