Word: remains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical moment would come when the TEL moved to the end of a ramp and stopped at a shelter entrance. There it could: 1) deposit an MX in the shelter; or 2) remove one; or 3) do neither, but deceptively remain at the entrance for the time it would take to load or unload a missile. To prevent Soviet spy satellites from detecting what was going on, the TEL's actions would be completely shrouded by the "shield vehicle," another truck that straddles the TEL much as a turtle is covered by its shell...
...those arguments can be countered. Even if Chrysler were to fail, another company would take over its tank business; the domestic auto industry would remain competitive because Volkswagen is expanding production in the U.S.; other auto manufacturers would enlarge their production-and hire plenty of workers to meet it. Still, the threat of unemployment, even if temporary and spotty, was the decisive point for Administration policymakers in this preelection, recession year...
...script creates an exhausting round robin of ethical and personal conflicts for its hero. Should Tynan lead the fight against a racist Supreme Court nominee, or should he remain silent out of deference to an old colleague (Melvyn Douglas)? Should he carry on an affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also...
...were recruited for the high work. They doubled for actors and assisted cameramen who were lashed to precarious ledges. Everyone was ferried up by helicopters borrowed from an Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked it so much up there he didn't want to come down...
...eccentric passion of the woman in the yellow Corvette) by installing the restrictive "Diamond Lane." Didion, a sometime screenwriter, gives a wonderful insider's analysis of Hollywood as "the last extant stable society." She dismisses the women's movement with some hauteur: "To those of us who remain committed mainly to the ex ploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism." The article is, among other things, very funny, and a pure expression of Didion's contempt for cant...