Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PAULINE KAEL called it "the cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit the merest twitch of a response...
...major raid on fedayeen hideouts in southern Lebanon could lead to larger trouble, especially now that the P.L.O. and the Syrians have agreed to form a unified military command. Many experts worry about what might happen if the two U.N. forces were pulled out of the Sinai buffer zone or from the Golan Heights. "If that happens," a Western military observer in Beirut predicted last week, "there will be a bump - and I don't see how it could be localized. There's too much hardware around on both sides and too much emotion. Events will simply take...
...South, although some were replacements for soldiers who died in fighting or returned North. They have also brought in hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery pieces, as well as SA-7 antiaircraft missiles. Recently, several small units from Hanoi's strategic reserve have glided through the Demilitarized Zone...
Liquor Store Operator Joseph Schoen expressed a widespread fear: "I can't call for help." To deal with emergencies, the telephone company brought in mobile units and quickly restored service to the three hospitals, ten fire houses and two police precinct stations in the zone of silence. Ma Bell also set up 379 temporary pay phones in the 300-sq.-block area. Extra police cars cruised the phoneless area with their rooflights flashing; anyone who had an emergency message could stop them and transmit it by police radio...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic said yesterday "The Cowboys liked Mike's ability to play the ball in the zone, his strong tackling game, and his overall aggressiveness...