Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about going up in a hot-air balloon for her latest picture, Bobby Deerfield. She plays a dying woman who teaches a race-car driver to live life to the fullest. That involves not just the balloon and a racing car but a Lake Como ferryboat and an auto-train that bores through the Simplon Tunnel. Co-Star Al Pacino, 36, was not happy about having to spend two days filming in the darkness of the tunnel-"two bad days," he grumbled-but that had to do with the tunnel, not Keller. "We hit it off right away," said...
...they seem to be trapped in some unstable photographic solution, shifting in and out of focus as if the whole image were being washed around in a developing pan. The great domed city of the future is rather too obviously a model- it looks like part of an electric train set- and its main thoroughfare resembles a suburban shopping mall. Indeed, pushing their vision of the future to its limits, Director Michael Anderson and MGM actually shot these scenes on location- at a merchandise mart in Dallas...
...Kampala, the nearby capital. They sent Jerusalem a constant flow of intelligence, including photographs, about what the terrorists were doing and how the Ugandan army was deployed. With this information, the Israelis, who helped build the airport a decade ago, constructed a full-scale updated model of Entebbe to train commandos for the raid...
...Adolf Hitler and plans to erect a memorial to der Führer in Kampala. Constantly lecturing world leaders, Amin has (in 1973) wished Richard Nixon "a speedy recovery from the Watergate affair"; advised President Gerald Ford to choose a black as U.S. Vice President; told Arab states to "train kamikaze pilots [to] beat Israel"; and denounced Julius Nyerere, the President of neighboring Tanzania, as "a whore who spreads gonorrhea all over Africa...
...people who pay the taxes that enable me to compete." A Communist Party member since 1972 and honorary delegate to the ninth East German party congress last May, Fuchs is an enthusiastic supporter of the East German sports system, which allows her "to go to the stadium and train without putting a single pfennig on the table." Once motivated by ego, Fuchs says winning is now "a political matter...