Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next step in the media onslaught, of course, is the movie. But that is where this Hollywood story hit a snag. Plans for a film version of Wired were set in motion more than four years ago. But problems in getting financing delayed the shooting until last summer. And not until last week, after months of turndowns, did the producers find a company willing to distribute the film. The stumbling block, say Wired's backers, was a Hollywood community that closed ranks against a picture it wanted to squelch. Says Woodward, an adviser on the film: "A large portion...
...many Washington politicians fear that U.S. plans to develop the FSX fighter jet with Japan could give Tokyo a vital jump start in the aerospace industry, one of the few high-technology fields in which American companies still dominate. The growing outcry has transformed the proposed jet, an advanced version of the F-16, into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership of the world. "What we're seeing is the emergence of an entirely new concept of national security," says Wisconsin Democrat...
Jean Anouillh's World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...
Metzenbaum was urged on by two groups--Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union--that decided to emphasize capital as an important consumer issue. The groups are hoping the Metzenbaum victory will lend momentum to their fight to toughen the House version of the S&L bill...
Good writers, those two. Poetic, brief and accurate. George Bush must have been listening and working up his own version...