Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this was beginning to take promising shape on paper in late 1983. But paper is not celluloid. And Cameron and Hurd needed a track record to support their developing vision. Luckily, it came in a rush. First, casting and finance finally came together for The Terminator script, which he directed and she produced. (It was during postproduction that their professional relationship turned into a romance that led to marriage ten months later.) In the meantime, he finished the script on which Sylvester Stallone did his usual devastating rewrite -- and turned into Rambo. The Terminator was a low-budget ($6.5 million...
...Sure, the aliens are ugly, drooling and screeching as they try to plant their eggs in their victims. But the director James Cameron creates a more general atmosphere of unrelenting fear--such as a child's fear of losing her newfound mommy--that turns your basic horror-movie shock-rush into two hours of spine-chilling terror...
...Newark airline has earned the nickname "People Distress." Its North Terminal center, once deservedly known as "the Pit," has improved over the years, but it still resembles a bus terminal at rush hour. A replacement facility is a year to 18 months away from completion. Horror stories have spread along the discount-fare grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back...
...Norman Rush...
America's love of instantaneousness probably stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites. In the consumer marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote...