Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tense little movie could be made out of the struggle between the bugs and the military-scientific complex charged with exterminating them. Unfortunately, no one seems to want to make tense little movies any more, least of all Irwin Allen, who has prospered with the likes of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which potentially amusing premises were so heavily encrusted with "human interest" subplots that they sank of their own weight...
...advances add one more complex variable to the equation of mutual deterrence. About 75% of the Soviets' 3,500 warheads are carried by land-based missiles that would be vulnerable to the Mk-12A (in contrast, more than 60% of the 8,500 American warheads are mounted on Poseidon and Polaris missiles in submarines). Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American affairs and advises the Kremlin, was spreading the word in Washington that the upcoming improvements were more worrisome...
...ancients believed that weather changed at the whim of the gods, and Homer's Odyssey contains several references to storms raised against Odysseus by a wrathful Poseidon. Modern-day meteorologists have established that earth's weather stems mainly from the sun. Each day radiation equal to some 17 trillion kilowatts reaches the earth's atmosphere from the sun and warms the planet, particularly around the equatorial regions, where this radiation strikes more directly than it does at the poles...
...Jack Dempsey ("I knew all there was to know about being hit"). Gallico quit the News in 1936 and wrote Farewell to Sport, the first of 41 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his most popular novels: The Snow Goose (1941), Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958), The Poseidon Adventure...
...Liza Minnelli, has been an utter flop that contributed heavily to the studio's first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors like Hal Ashby (Shampoo) can earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie...