Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside, the Saxon's Gothic architecture and broken seats fit well with a string of trailers slowly parading across the screen. There's good, clean, big-budget fun with The Final Conflict--hopefully, the last of the Omen pictures. The next preview heralds the return of The Texas Chain Saw Massacres, a picture ahead of its time. This trailer's teaser scene shows a raging lunatic perfecting his gasoline talents on a man in a wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer...
Neighborhood groups received a preview of the new plans last months...
Nevertheless, old ways will be hard to change. Congressmen have always fought ferociously to save pork-barrel water projects, obsolete military bases or other federal favors in their districts. Stockman had a preview of future battles two weeks ago during his Senate confirmation hearings. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee fretted that Stockman's proposed reforms of federal credit programs would increase the borrowing costs of the Tennessee Valley Authority and boost his constituents' electric bills, while Democrat John Glenn of Ohio was concerned that Stockman offered no special help for his state's steel firms...
...moment November's election results were made official, the winner was at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, on his third journey east since Election Day, presiding over a lunch at Blair House for women members of Congress. There he was given a preview of the demands that will begin to supplant the ritual once he is in the White House. Democrat Shirley Chisholm, whose district contains Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, asked what he was going to do about jobs for the inner cities. Reagan briefly explained his support for an innovative proposal to establish free enterprise...
Almost every normal transition has provided a preview of the tone and method of the new Administration. Kennedy formed his Government in the sagging elegance of his Georgetown home and made casual announcements about his appointees from the frigid front stoop. Nixon installed himself on the 39th floor of New York City's majestic Hotel Pierre, and, as he chose the members of his Administration, the world waited far below...