Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nasty welcome from the Immigration and Naturalization Service: they were promptly incarcerated. Under a new hard-line policy, refugees are detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This time roughly 110 men and women were confined behind barbed wire at a detention center near Bayview, Texas, while about 200 mothers with children were held at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Brownsville...
Well, satire was never meant to ingratiate, and The 'Burbs is unsparing in its cauterizing of provincialism. One neighbor (played by Bruce Dern with wonderfully psychotic poise and a barbed-wire halo of gray hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions...
China Beach revolves around a hospital-and-entertainment complex near Danang, and its protagonists range from a dedicated nurse (Dana Delany) to a hard-bitten war profiteer (Marg Helgenberger). Tour of Duty focuses on an all- male combat platoon, but this season has added two prominent female characters -- a wire-service reporter and a psychiatrist -- and, of course, a love interest for each...
Cheers rang out over the Beverly Hills junk-bond trading floor of Drexel Burnham Lambert at the news coming over the brokerage firm's wire. Jubilation also reigned among most New York Republicans, and quite probably in Mafia hangouts as well. Rudolph Giuliani, famed prosecutor of Wall Street manipulators (Drexel, Ivan Boesky), mobsters (the Colombo family) and corrupt politicians (former Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman), announced that after 5 1/2 years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able...
...everyone thinks they are. Dallas had one of the toughest schedules in the league this year. At the beginning of the season, Dallas lost to the Giants by two points, Philadelphia on the last play of the game, and several other games went down to the wire...