Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonderfully fair to moviegoers, a superbly suspenseful, expertly crafted, entirely riveting entertainment. It is hard to recall a movie of recent years as absorbing, or as much fun, as The China Syndrome. That rather obscure title, by the way, refers to the theoretical destination of a plant's super-hot uranium core if it somehow lost its liquid coolant and burned through the floor, into the earth and onward to China...
...Greacen was super consistent today, and that's what you have to do to be in contention in a meet like this," diving, coach John Walker said. "The field in this contest was at least as good as any in recent years...
...book has limited appeal--you might read it because you read North Dallas Forty, in which case you won't like it as well as you like the previous book. Or you might read it because you read the sports pages and rooted for the Wehrmacht in the latest Super Bowl, in which case you won't like it all. Or you might read it because it is one of the few recent novels that deal with a peculiar and troubling section of America, and then if you don't still believe Oswald was the Lone Gunman...
BECAUSE AS THE divisions firm up, we reanze that one of the few bonds remaining in contemporary American culture is Sport, more precisely. Televised Sport. Don't believe me? Check the ratings on Super Bowl XII--it was the most-watched television extravaganza of all time. Then see where the New Yorker subscribers are. Then check out how many records the Sex Pistols sold. And remember they only print a million copies of The New York Times every day. What do I think? I think that you might be interested in reading a novel by a talented and growing writer...
...President's image as an effective global leader, there was a pressing need to take some bold international action to reassure America's friends and allies of Washington's determination to protect its interests. An editorial in a Beirut paper speculated that the U.S. was fast becoming a "super nonpower" in the Middle East. Much more worrisome to the Administration was the degree to which Saudi Arabia seemed to be reassessing its close