Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Release of the hostages. At some specific time after the U.N. commission's creation is announced, the hostages will be set free, although exactly who would transport them out of Iran was uncertain...
...original, but it certainly is promising. A very chic heroine (Ali MacGraw) follows a well-dressed man (Alan King) into Bergdorf Goodman and proceeds to slug him repeatedly with her purse. All hell breaks loose in the department store, and it seems that Director Sidney Lumet will transport his audience back to the glory days of Hollywood's glossy romantic comedies. Maybe MacGraw and King are no Lombard and Gable-or Day and Hudson-but at least they seem intent on having a good time. Just Tell Me What You Want looks as if it were home free...
...finest musicals are subject to sociocultural jet lag. The biorhythms of the societal clock seem organically out of kilter. No time machine can transport the audience to the 1943 spirit of Oklahoma! or the 1957 of West Side Story. Separate components (songs, dances, acting) can be marvelously exciting, but the core of the musical, what it is rather than what it does, recedes into an odd realm of detachment. The original galvanizing impact is dissipated...
...aircraft carrier-visitors to these islands can go by jet only as far as St. Maarten; from there they proceed either by boat or Windward Islands Airways International (Winair). For Montserrat and Barbuda, the traveler flies to Antigua and then takes LIAT, acronym for Leeward Island Air Transport. On to the islands...
...everywhere, gather for the 13th Olympic Winter Games. A crew of 200 translators fluent in two dozen or so languages has been brought in to smooth the competitors' way. A Panzer division of vehicles -buses, cars, vans, snowmobiles and four-wheel-drive mountain climbers-has been assembled to transport people and supplies...