Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Monte Hellman took the B-unit to the Phillipines and made Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury. The low-budget films had strictly limited aspirations, and still failed to fulfill them. So the dynamic duo turned to the latest craze, The Western; Nicholson wrote Ride the Whirlwind and Adrien Joyce penned The Shooting; filmed simultaneously on the Utah desert, neither was ever released...
...Carter discovered, a unilateral policy of weapons-sale restraint can be bootless. But a policy that exalts a lack of restraint can likewise reap a whirlwind of unwanted, unpredictable challenges. If Reagan abandons any serious attempt to seek controls for the flow of weaponry, he will have given in to a danger that threatens American interests, with only the poor excuse that others...
...Owner George Steinbrenner and Oakland Manager Billy Martin flapped at the umpires and each other every now and then, that was nothing compared with the flapping in the wives' section of Yankee Stadium. There Ginger Nettles and the seasoned wives' corps whipped bedsheet banners around in a whirlwind. PLAN A ALL THE WAY, read one, referring to the first of the Steinbrenner A, B, C "scenarios." Under Plan A, most of the team would return next year; under Plans B and C, varying numbers of players would be jettisoned to make way for new talent. To make...
...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg...