Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General Motors, which was eager to get back into the area (it had shut down in South Africa in response to an international campaign against apartheid). After Nujoma visited the U.S. early this year, a deal was struck. Barden will become GM's sole distributor in Namibia. GM will ship 818 cars, vans and trucks there. Barden is building a $19 million plant, expected to be running in January, to convert them from left-hand to right-hand drive, and later to do the same for other vehicles to be sold throughout Africa. The contract Barden International signed...
...clear from the get-go that Titanic would cost a bundle. Cameron, 43, built a 775-ft. replica of the ship, 10% smaller than the real one, and a 17 million-gal. tank in which to sink it. The film was shot at a 40-acre complex Fox set up in Rosarito, Mexico. And Cameron got the studio to pay for repeated dives to the site of the actual wreck, where he deployed cameras specifically designed for his exploration...
...director had busted budgets before (on The Abyss, Terminator II, True Lies). But his pictures have grossed more than $1 billion, all told. So Fox was moved at once to green-light his tale of young lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) who meet aboard the ill-fated ship. It's seen through the eyes of an elderly survivor of the 1912 disaster (Gloria Stuart), who recounts her ordeal to treasure hunters (led by Bill Paxton) seeking a jewel believed to be submerged in the wreck...
...slap it into a situation where the only other people in the room are the joke-hearer and someone with acid for blood and a bad case of extraterrestrial colic. Rewording may be necessary. Example: "Who do I have to fuck around here to get off this ship?" or the old-school misogynistic refrain recontextualized "Must be a chick thing." File under sub-heading The Role of the Quotidian, such as someone chased by a fanged wacko but getting horribly frightened...by a spider...
...sensibility that led to making the ordinary, world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water release a key shock point of Alien--this is missing. I don't want to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and most horrific outer space being being Salad-Shot through a window...