Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cult knows where to find him: playing fringe characters in fringe features like Videodrome and, just a couple of months ago, portraying a man succumbing to the twin addictions of ambition and drugs in The Boost. His Oscar nomination was for Salvador, a feverish performance of Yanqui journalism confronting Latin revolution that never found the audience it deserved. The big crowd, catching Woods occasionally on television or doing heavy duty in a mainstream movie, has yet to get his message. Or maybe that message is too clear and the public hates what it is hearing...
Actually, the Pat Sajak Show has stationed itself carefully between those twin towers of late night, Carson and David Letterman. Like Letterman, Sajak has a touch of self-mocking irony and presides over irreverent comedy bits, which range from funny (Sajak goes to the doctor) to lame (audience members are enlisted to play Dunk an Auto Mechanic). But the show's physical look (band on the right, desk and couch on the left) and format (opening monologue followed by brief chat with easygoing sidekick), along with the host's witty but nonthreatening style, are all unmistakably Carson...
...said the pilot reported problems in one engine and was having trouble climbing. The twin-engine aircraft disappeared off radar screens at 8:15, she said...
...Likud's Moshe Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz movement, the twin pillars of Labor support, opted instead for the finance portfolio. Peres insists he will continue to speak out on foreign policy issues as leader of the Labor Party. But it will be Shamir and Arens who finally give Israel one official voice on diplomatic matters...
...added a million square feet of factory space to its 7 million-sq.-ft. commercial- jetliner division in Long Beach, Calif. The only Douglas product available at the moment is a medium-range workhorse called the MD-80 ($27 million; 150 passengers), an updated version of its venerable twin-engine DC-9. Douglas has delivered 553 of the newer model to some 41 airlines, and has orders for 275 more. The company is helping build a similar jet, the MD-82, in Shanghai. China's state airline, CAAC, plans to use the aircraft on its domestic routes. Under...