Word: hairbreadth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likely to cause confusion the further one gets from hard news -- and from the present day. The old CBS News series You Are There ^ used actors to dramatize historical events and did no permanent harm to the Republic. CBS's new series Rescue 911, which features re-enactments of hairbreadth rescue missions, is quite entertaining and probably harmless. In general, however, the technique's proliferation is fudging the line between news and entertainment, and news is the loser...
...Connery, who as James Bond helped sire the thrill-machine genre, brings his masterly charm to the role of Indiana's estranged dad Henry Jones. Lucas and Spielberg, Ford and Connery prove that a sequel can be as fresh as the face of a teenage Indy confronting his first hairbreadth challenge. Indy 3 is the same, different and better. It infuses vitality into the action-adventure, a movie staple whose ravenous popularity and endless, predictable permutations have nearly exhausted...
Small wonder that Nixon, after a hairbreadth defeat to John F. Kennedy for the presidency in 1960, left Washington an unhappy man. A losing race in 1962 for a job he did not want, Governor of California, did nothing to improve his mood. Ambrose's first volume sets the stage for a comeback; the second should tell it as it happened, with a vengeance...
...fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
Even if the U.S. pulled out the stops on its support for the contras, most experts agree these forces could not bring about the overthrow of the Sandinistas--an objective that the President has come within a hairbreadth of supporting. Nor is there much chance that Congress will restore direct aid to the contras unless they, and their sponsors in the Administration, are willing to accept a political compromise...