Word: warden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines can park words outside time. But there are situations in which that won't do. The Governor calls at one minute to midnight. Ring. Click. "Hello, this is Warden Parker. I'm attending an execution at the moment, but if you'll leave your . . . Or the President of the U.S. gets on the hot line and reaches the Kremlin's answering machine: "... So please just leave your message at the sound of the boom...
Madison, 32, a Colorado state wildlife officer, or game warden, is worried. Too many bull elk are being killed in the fall hunting season. Consequently, he believes, fewer than half of the cow elk in his district are giving birth to calves in spring. That is much too low; 70% is best to maintain the herd properly...
Inside the walls, Reverend Moon is running his church from his cell. Ironically, Warden Dennis Luther has forbidden Moon from Proselytizing to his fellow prisoners, citing a regulation which bars prisoners from operating their "businesses" within the prison. The Federal government has elearly decided that the religion of Reverend Sun Myung Moon is business...
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Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...