Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Double Man, by Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado and Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, has been selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, has hit the Washington Post best-seller list, seems headed for best-seller ranks elsewhere and may even reach the silver screen. The story, which they jointly hatched five years ago during a coffee break while waiting out an all-night filibuster, concerns Thomas Chandler, an upstanding Connecticut Senator with presidential aspirations who gets caught up in a Soviet terrorist plot as well as in the net of a beautiful female aide. Cohen...
...switched on television last week could not dodge the images, old and new, of Viet Nam: U.S. helicopters retreating from Saigon ten years ago, gaily garbed celebrators parading through the streets of that city, now named after Ho Chi Minh, on the tenth anniversary of the Communist victory. The screen poured forth pictures of life in Viet Nam today: peasants toiling in paddies, cyclists pedaling along busy avenues, children smiling into the camera lens. Yet those scenes did not tell the full story; network correspondents were not allowed free access to "re-education camps," where thousands of Vietnamese remain imprisoned...
SENTENCED. Albert Nipon, 57, dress manufacturer whose softly styled, femininely frilled designs have adorned screen stars, businesswomen and First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan; to three years in prison, after pleading guilty in federal court last February to charges of income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud, involving the bribery of two Internal Revenue Service agents; in Philadelphia...
...Walter Mondale? All spring and summer and fall of 1984, Mondale was a presence in American life, his words, his cadences, his voice and visage and body English all injected electronically into the nation's consciousness. Then November. Poof. Mondale vanished, like the minute explosion of light on the screen when one turns off an old television set after the national anthem--the little death of a star. Mondale reappeared not long ago, gave a few interviews, then dematerialized again, disappearing into a Washington law firm. He became, in short, a private man, a resident of the same obscurity (almost...
While the characters and situations in most of the games are taken directly from the books on which they are based, players of interactive fiction respond to, and actually create, variances in the plot line by typing commands on the computer screen. For example, when Fahrenheit 451 is loaded into the computer, the following words appear on the screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional...