Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewers will have ample opportunity to get to know the Schreuders in coming months. Next week CBS will air the two-part At Mother's Request, based on Jonathan Coleman's 1985 account of the murder of Salt Lake City Millionaire Franklin Bradshaw. Sometime this spring NBC will tell the same story in Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder, a six-hour mini-series drawn from Shana Alexander's book on the same subject. It was a game of TV chicken: the two networks had bought the rights to the competing books and neither wanted to give up the sensational story...
...Mother's Request (the second TV film to be launched but the first completed) is not merely about strange people, it is a strange TV drama. Shot on location in New York City and Utah and directed by Michael Tuchner, it has * a seedy, B-movie feel. The plot lurches fitfully, characters pop in and out with little explanation, and the story lacks context. Frances, for example, aspires to be a socialite, but we never see her mingling in society. This is a movie oddly short of extras...
...most inflammatory question of our time," proclaimed the full-page advertisements of a tobacco company last year. The question: "Hey, would you put out that cigarette?" To cigarette producers and to the nation's 60 million smokers, those sound like fighting words. But to nonsmokers, the request appears to be increasingly reasonable and justifiable...
Attorney General Edwin Meese, meanwhile, faced questions about a request he made in late October to FBI Director William Webster for a ten-day delay in an investigation into the role played by Southern Air Transport in supplying the contras. Webster agreed. Meese had linked the request to "sensitive hostage negotiations." Some on Capitol Hill have charged that the content of Meese's request suggests that he had some idea of the connection between the Iran deals and the contras almost a month before he revealed it publicly. But Meese says he made his appeal at the behest of Poindexter...
Petrovsky's answer stunned everyone present. In fact, he said, he had an announcement to make on that very subject. Sakharov had asked the Soviet leadership for permission to move to Moscow, Petrovsky related, and the request had been considered by the appropriate organizations. As a result, said Petrovsky, Sakharov's wish had been granted and Bonner had been pardoned for "slandering" the Soviet state. He continued, "Academician Sakharov and Mrs. Bonner may return to Moscow, and Academician Sakharov may actively join the scientific life of the Academy of Sciences...