Word: re-establish
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...space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system with images that bemuse and beguile...
...Spielberg points out, Marlon Brando gets about three times as much. And E.T. will earn his keep with the usual spinoffs: candy, dolls, T shirts, an alarm clock, a toy game to be made by Texas Instruments, whose Speak & Spell game is part of the device E.T. makes to re-establish contact with his spaceship. "Phone home," the little lost spaceman learns to say plaintively, and this dictates the single TV commercial that Spielberg will allow him to make. Naturally, it will be for the Bell System: Reach out and touch someone...
...government. Last week, in a predawn coup, Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, 52, army chief of staff, ousted Sattar and in stalled himself as strongman. "I have no political ambition," the general asserted in a radio and television broadcast announcing the takeover. "My whole and sole aim is to re-establish democracy...
...opposite end of the political spectrum. But the religious parties had cooperated with the Labor coalitions that ran the nation from its founding in 1948 until Begin's surprising victory in 1977. Said a Labor Party official: "We will not give them everything, but we will try to re-establish the old understanding we enjoyed with them...
...Allegheny Conference on Community Development. The conference, which included the heads of Gulf, U.S. Steel and other corporations, had been largely responsible for the "Renaissance" of the late '40s and '50s that rebuilt the downtown Golden Triangle. At that dinner, Caliguiri spoke about his desire to re-establish good relations between business and city hall...