Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehicles will be bound for the East and West coasts and U.S. military bases in Europe and Asia. Two vans scheduled for delivery to Camp Casey near the Korean Demilitarized Zone will sport camouflage and the Burger King logo rendered in hard-to-spot dark green and brown...
...They were playing a soft zone," Stavrianidis reported, "and they weren't coming up to defend our passes...
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev endorsed still another arms-control idea last week, this one for a zone in central Europe free of chemical weapons. The U.S. rejected the notion as quickly as it thumbed down Gorbachev's suggestion last month for a moratorium on underground nuclear tests. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes called the chemical-free zone a "resurfacing and repackaging of ideas we have heard before" and added that, besides, it would be difficult to verify...
Indeed, three of the season's four new anthology shows deal explicitly with the unexpected, the strange and the fantastic: Steven Spielberg's eagerly awaited Amazing Stories, a new TV version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both on NBC), and CBS's reincarnation of The Twilight Zone. CBS is premiering a fourth series, George Burns Comedy Week, which will feature a different comedy segment each week, linked by Burns, who acts as host, and the creative oversight of Co-Executive Producer Steve Martin. Each of these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never...
...Twilight Zone, by contrast, will offer mostly new segments (two to three per hour) based on stories by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; the directors include William Friedkin, Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Robert Downey (Putney Swope). The show has the difficult task of living up to Rod Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared...