Word: rand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
...Rand's Christmas present to his son is stranger and more wondrous than any of his own inventions: a little animal called a Mogwai, with a kitten's purr and the forlorn eyes of an orphan puppy. The creature, whom Billy's dad dubs Gizmo, arrives with enough warnings to fill a Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from...
...outside the Government, sometimes at meetings that resembled bull sessions. At one Saturday steak-and-eggs breakfast at the State Department last month, Shultz, professonally dressed in a tweed jacket and Argyle sweater, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other top officials heard from Brian Jenkins of the California-based Rand Corp., who is an authority on worldwide terrorism. Jenkins stressed that officials must face the essential question: Are you prepared to use force...
...claimed it was unclear whether or not the presence of American companies in South Africa was a bad thing. Bok's comments in the spring of 1978 that seemed to defend the idea of American investment in South Africa were quoted in newspapers like the Johannesburg Star and the Rand Daily Mail as the official opinion of Harvard University. The student movement for divestiture had accomplished a great many victories. In forcing the Corporation to face up to the responsibilities that come with a $2 billion stock portfolio, it has completed and overturned the essentially amoral investment policy...
...realistic enough to know they cannot do much to damage Reagan politically, they do not want to do him any favors either. Says Arnold Horelick, formerly the CIA's top Kremlinologist, now director of a newly formed Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior sponsored by the Rand Corp. and U.C.L.A.: "The Soviet leaders will be reluctant to do anything that might gratuitously contribute to Reagan's reelection. That does not mean they would turn their backs on something concrete, but they certainly are not going to join us in a fishing expedition...