Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee adopted "a large number of minor changes" to remove sections of its analysis of SDI that were deemed classified last fall, members said. The committee met with the SDI office in December in order to work out a version of the report that would be agreeable to both the government and the scholars, members said...
...next major nuclear piece in the pipeline is the film version of Dead End Kids, the multimedia intellectual vaudeville created by the Mabou Mines theatrical troupe. As realized by director JoAnne Akalaitis, this play tried to place nuclear power and weaponry in the context of Western history, instead of viewing it as some sort of aberration of modern politics. While dated even then by its nuclear freeze sentiments, Dead End Kids still made a good stab at some insight into the atomic age. With any luck, Akalaitis has already seen Kopit's play and is scouring her own work...
...teenagers in 25 cities from Los Angeles to Miami, a ten-month-old telephone service known as Scoopline has provided an updated version of the old party line. By dialing a special number, teens can hook into conversations with as many as ten other anonymous callers. Operated by a Los Angeles company called Ultraphone, the service has been a boon to youngsters with a good voice and a gift...
...could they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but? Nonetheless, a number of angry plaintiffs in recent years have brought libel suits charging that they were represented, and misrepresented, by fictional characters in stories, novels and films. The latest such suit, against the film version of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, ended last week with a court-endorsed settlement that sent a cautionary and somewhat paradoxical message: when you make things up, be sure to tell the truth...
...further analyze the pretentions of this perverted movie would be to dignify it to a degree it doesn't deserve. It's hard to imagine anyone enjoying this journey through decay, or to understand how the experience of watching an intellectualized version of Faces of Death could lead to anything but nausea. A Zed and Two Noughts is an angry, pointless film nothing more than stupidity masquerading as profundity...