Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists in the Public Health Service persuaded Congress--and tried to persuade the public--that an influenza epidemic as devastating as that of 1918 was likely to occur this winter. The scientists also claimed that in six months they could produce a safe and effective vaccine to protect against this new strain of influenza...
THERE ARE NO two ways about it. Inspector Harry Callahan is one tough hombre. He established that image in Dirty Harry and reinforced it in Magnum Force. Now, in The Enforcer, with his reputation safe, he lets you see a little more of him. Nothing that probably wasn't there all along, nothing that is even a little hard to believe. You always knew he had a soft streak under that hard-as-nails exterior. It's just that you never really expected him to let anyone know. He is still tough, although a little more believable...
...unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot remains the same...
...unnecessary to repeat here the basic arguments in favor of amnesty. Since 1972 polls have shown that a large majority of Americans think the Vietnam war was a mistake. It seems safe to infer that most of these people favor, or at least would accept, the idea of amnesty. At any rate, there seems little doubt that Jimmy Carter plans some kind of action on the matter. But the question remains: how far will...
Interlocutor: Mr. Welles, am I right in saying the last two reels of The Magnificent Ambersons are packed in a safe in South America...