Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Split Image doesn't manage to come up with a cult scenario. It does have a few things in its favor--for instance, its cast and its glimpse into suburban life. Unfortunately, its plot only updates a typical cult scenario with scenes designed for a 1982 teenage audience. It's not that cult sex is uninteresting; it's just not enough to create an award-winning film...
...loud rush of machinery engulf the visitor as the door swings shut on a familiar world that is light, breezy and boundless. Inside, the huge water tanks that dwarf green-uniformed workers and the computer control room could grace the set of any James Bond science fiction scenario...
...MOST BASIC LEVEL, underwear will become the primary marker of class position. Other, older markers will quickly become ancillary. Further, class barriers will harden because of the methods involved in recognizing these class markers. The following scenario illustrates one kind of behavior we can expect to find in the new age of designer underwear...
Intriguing though it is, NBC's scenario falls far short of hard proof. A Vatican spokesman denied knowledge of any papal letter to Brezhnev or secret diplomatic mission to Moscow. Although U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato last week accused CIA officials of dismissing information he gave them in October 1981 that the Kremlin was involved in the plot to kill the Pope, U.S. intelligence officials told TIME they had no evidence that the Pope was involved in either Solidarity's birth or funding...
...company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that was soon to be repeated in Cleveland (the Press). Instead, the Tribune Co. reversed field and proclaimed it would keep operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news paper unions...