Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of good, gray Masterpiece Theatre dramas, this three-hour import from Britain's innovative Channel 4 comes like a bracing wind from the North Sea. No decorous Edwardian soap opera, no fine period costumes, no tasteful cello music. This is a crackling, contemporary political thriller, directed at headlong speed by Mick Jackson from a witty, clued-in script by Alan Plater. The dialogue is dense, often overlapping, sometimes unintelligible. Compared with such relatively simpleminded American efforts as the NBC mini-series Favorite Son, A Very British Coup seems revolutionary in its own right: a TV political drama for adults...
...vehicle. And followed. And followed. And followed. Through the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. For four hours and more than 150 miles, tag teams of highway patrol cars and a Los Angeles police helicopter tailed the VW, which never exceeded the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, until driver Brett Barish finally ran out of gas near San Diego...
...number six, Co-Captain Frank Huerta's speed and shot selection proved too much for Chris Pentz. Huerta blasted Pentz in straight games...
...Then a police substation, a community college satellite and a tide of renovations by local merchants. Pitts meanwhile cleared the way for building the $5.7 million Edison Towers, new housing in the heart of the riot area, and is now at work on another housing initiative, Edison Gardens. The speed of the turnaround, says LISC's Sandra Rosenblith, was dazzling. "This is the way community development is supposed to work," she says, "but I've never seen it happen so clearly, or so fast...
...Soviets' major practical contribution has been prospecting for and developing oil. Eight Russian rigs are drilling in Shabwa, and the Soviets are searching out more untapped desert pools. Now the Yemeni government is urging Moscow to speed up other large projects long promised. The Kremlin has been slow to finish a $450 million power plant begun eleven years ago. But after a row in Aden last June, trained Soviet labor began arriving, bringing the imported contingent of skilled workers to more than...