Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan is careful, however, not to attack such New Deal programs as Social Security and unemployment insurance, which are now taken for granted and have large constituencies. There are prudent limits to his assault on Big Government. That is the lesson of the 1964 disaster, when Goldwater went down to...
After promising to put NBC at the top of the ratings pile by the end of 1980, Silverman is presiding over disaster. This past season NBC lagged far behind its competitors in ratings, finishing the season with 17.4 Nielsen points, compared with 19.6 for CBS and 19.5 for ABC. The...
THE BOYS in Hollywood pride themselves on being able to predict the future. A few years ago--before the DC 10, Three Mile Island and the Ford Pinto entered their current slump--the batboys of the celluloid ballpark elected a new captain. His name was Irwin Allen and his product...
SOME TIME AGO, a Hollywood producer sat down and thought it might be great fun to make a parody of a disaster movie. The product of his thoughts was The Big Bus, the story of a nuclear-powered bus that ends up half over a cliff in the middle of...
Since they are all self-parodies anyway, the notion of making a satirical version of Airport and its three ridiculous sequels seems superfluous, if not impossible. But Airplane! may be this summer's most cheerful lunacy. Its style is basic collegiate raunch (imagine a disciplined Animal House or a...