Word: plug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airport 77 has almost nothing to do with airports and even less to do with the way anybody lives or thinks in 1977. The previous airport movies at least managed to plug in to common aviation anxieties (engine failure, mid-air collisions), but the latest flying misnomer fails even at that feeble level...
...Formal review by the Economic Policy Group-a Cabinet-level panel analogous to the National Security Council-of the economic impact of virtually all proposed Government actions. Carter has already tried to pull the plug on as many as 30 regional water projects; he came out for a modest 20? boost in the minimum wage, to $2.50; he rejected the request of the International Trade Commission for higher duties on imported shoes (see ESSAY...
...helicopter and one in the Goodyear blimp; five slow-motion "discs" for replays, and a vidifont, a computer-like machine that can instantaneously cough up players' names and statistics. Add to that three miles of video cable, 3½ miles of audio cable, 65 microphones and 100 monitors, then plug everything into 15 giant trailer trucks and a specially built studio for the pre-game show, and the Super Bowl can be beamed to the addicted nation...
MOST BLATANT-AND LONGEST-COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION: a 90-minute plug masquerading as live coverage of a celebrity jolly-up, which launched NBC's Big Event series. Besides hyping the series, the stars tediously promoted their upcoming films-all, by an odd coincidence, Paramount releases...
During the day, the patient simply plugs up the inconspicuous little breathing tube in the incision−thus assuring normal speech. He usually can conceal the surgical paraphernalia by wearing a turtleneck sweater. At night the plug is removed, and only a few days or so after the operation, nocturnal breathing usually is dramatically improved. The apnea itself is not cured, and might return if the hole were closed at night. But the operation clearly makes life bearable again. Siegel, for example, is now functioning wide-awake during the day and sleeping soundly at night−without snoring...