Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint...
...François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program. It is a plan to help pay for the country's nuclear expansion by making France...
...someone notices that the numbers represent, in fact, a particular latitude and longitude--Devil's Tower, Wyoming no less. the U.S. government then assumes this will be the site for our first inter-galactic rendezvous. The area is sealed off, and the government disseminates the false report that a train carrying toxic gases had derailed and that, consequently, the area must be evacuated...
FROM THE OUTSIDE, Brooklyn doesn't look like much. Of course, some people would say it doesn't look like much from the inside either. Cross the East River from Manhattan into Brooklyn on the D train and all you'll see will be run-down houses, grimy and depressing factories, litter-lined streets and people. Three million people. Italian, Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Irish people. And not one of them ever said dese, dem, dose in his life...
...became excited about the comparison as he talked about Lincoln's humble beginnings. His deep voice increased in strength as the actor rose to the part. "To this day," he said, "I still remember a movie I saw about Lincoln. The last scene showed him getting on the train alone to go to Washington. He put a black shawl over his shoulders-just the way our villagers do." He dropped his voice and said slowly, "It is simplicity, but it is glory." Sadat's journey to Jerusalem was simple too-and it held the promise of glory...