Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WARM DECEMBER is framed in spun sugar. Sidney Poitier, who also directed, stars as a brilliant physician who deserted a booming private practice in Boston to work on a ghetto medicine program in Washington, D.C. When the widowed doctor first appears in the film, he is on vacation in London, living at a posh hotel in a style suitable to a vice roy. He falls in love with a lovely, intelligent young woman (Esther Anderson), whose uncle is an ambassador of a newly emergent African state. She is being devoured from within by sicklecell anemia, which happens...
Coolly composed, the former Government agent spun out a tale of Washington intrigue sprinkled with specific details of secret meetings on a scenic outlook over the Potomac, pay-booth telephone calls from a stranger, an implied threat against his life...
...growing. Indeed, President Nixon has recently called on his advisers, and some outside economists, to suggest alternatives to the tattered anti-inflation policy of Phase III. From board room to checkout counter, public pressure is building for some decisive action to deal with an economy that seems to have spun out of control into the kind of inflationary binge that historically precedes recession...
Viet Nam is a dark, broody obsession at the heart of David Rabe's three dramas. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel turned a man into an infantry cog and spun him off to combat and death. In Sticks and Bones, which CBS refused to air after complaints from local stations (TIME, March 19), a blind veteran returned to his bland-as-cornflakes family and found that they could not stomach his 20-20 insight on the U.S. and the war. In The Orphan, at off-Broadway's Public Theater, Viet Nam is not actively present except...
...Vanguard's wing hit a tree, and the plane spun into a wooded plateau under full power, cutting a swath through the firs as the front part of the fuselage disintegrated in a shower of metal fragments and human bodies. Of the 144 aboard, only 39 survived...