Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the Steven Spielberg film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial opened in June 1982, retailers were caught unprepared for the ravenous public demand for E.T. playthings. This time, though, everything is in place for a merchandising bonanza from the summer Spielberg blockbusters Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. More than 80 companies are cranking out millions of souvenirs ranging from sleeping bags to lunch pails emblazoned with characters from the two films. Such tony department stores as Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor are touting the official Indiana Jones hat. The popularity of Gremlins is an unexpected windfall...
...will be real hard to jump here unless we have a miracle and the wind decides to blow one way." But, as World Record Holder Bob Beamon (29 ft. 2½ in.) might tell him, miracles are not unknown in the long jump. -By Tom Callahan. Reported by Steven Holmes and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles
...summer: that blithe season when the latest Steven Spielberg movies are in full bloom at the nation's theaters. Fantasy, fun and lighthearted adventure for all, right? Well, this year it depends on one's idea of fun. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spielberg's slam-bang sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, a man's heart is ripped out of his chest in a ritual sacrifice, and he is lowered alive into a pit of molten lava. In Gremlins, a fantasy co-produced by Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante...
...book is written in the novel-like, no-attribution form that Woodward and Bernstein did much to popularize--and for which they took much flak--in The Final Days, their account of the end of the Nixon Administration. As American Lawyer editor Steven Brill has written, the style irritates formalist journalists who cringe if no "he recalled" or "she added" appears after an incident...
Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles and Thomas McCarroll/New York