Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first frustrated far more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend to keep it and get a better one," she tells Adams before he leaves the station in a rage. By the film's end, although she is not polished at doing hard news as she is at cute features, she gets a great story...
THAT MAKES The China Syndrome work as a thriller are its fine details. The nuclear control room set was designed by the man who re-created The Washington Post newsroom in All the President's Men; the T.V. studio and control room were from a real Los Angeles station. (Fonda's anchorman was played by an L.A. anchorman apparantly well-versed in the "Happy News" style.) The plot is well-crafted, and doesn't fall into the predictable action cliches that mar most current action/suspense films...
...Alexandria, Carter was met by the largest, most enthusiastic crowd of the Egyptian visit. An estimated 1 million people lined the 3½-mile drive along the Mediterranean Sea wall from the railway station to Ras el Tin Palace, where the Carters stayed. That night Sadat was host at a gala state dinner...
...girl, a local college student, was taken to the police station when arresting officers found that she was not carrying her driver's license. A computer check quickly revealed that she did indeed have a valid license, and she sent a friend who was with her to pick it up at home. But what seemed to be merely an annoying incident took a decidedly ugly turn. According to her lawyer, Jane Doe then went through an embarrassing series of events. She was led into a room by a police matron and ordered to strip...
...Chicago; men are generally given a pat-down while clothed. Says A.C.L.U. Attorney Lois Lipton: "This practice cut across racial lines, ethnic lines, age lines, religious lines. The only thing these women had in common was that they were women." In fact, one female plaintiff was at the police station accompanying a male friend who had been arrested. Although she was never charged with a crime, she was stripped and searched...