Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Answer: none of the above, mercifully. William Brinkley, an ex-Navy man who made gentle fun of that service in Don't Go Near the Water, his popular 1956 novel (remember Glenn Ford in the movie?), is serious on this voyage. Instead of another hardware-heavy Tom Clancy naval thriller like The Hunt for Red October, Brinkley's tale has humanity, thoughtfulness and one inspired complication: women. On the Nathan James, not surprisingly nowadays in this man's Navy, 32 crew members are female. Sexual tension and just plain tension mount as the ship, food and fuel dwindling, scours...
...women. Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
...Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn...
...providing much of the substance for it as well. The Dan Rather-George Bush confrontation of four weeks ago has already secured a place in U.S. political folklore. Almost every week since, another TV "moment" has grabbed the spotlight. After Iowa, it was Pat Robertson's bristling response to Tom Brokaw's characterization of him as a "former television evangelist." Last week it was Dole's ill-tempered admonition to Bush -- after another Brokaw question -- to "stop lying about my record...