Word: plates
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...black background, no sound: "Oh, Christ," you think--"not another American Bergman." Throughout, Redford blunders like the typical autodidact, smothering whatever intuitions he might have about film with a congeries of tony cliches: an aerial shot of a breakfast table, for example, or a shot of a license plate as the family car pulls into the garage...
...legal observers seem prepared to bet next Sunday's collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...
There is a most definite air of history surrounding Charles Eliot. On the brass plate on the door of the house he grew up in, the inscription of the family name is gradually fading away. The 106-year-old house is being repainted now, but not even the smell of lacquer could hide the mustiness of the library where Eliot sits, clad in a kind of somber pinstripe suit he wore when he taught at Harvard...
...result, the poisons have turned up in surprising places. Not far from home plate at New York City's Shea Stadium, a festering pond containing PCB, toluene, benzene and DDT turns red, blue or green as the mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands...
...Broadcasting Communications Inc. must now apply for its own nonprofit mail permit. Vows Dial Publisher Morton Bailey Jr.: "We're going to fight this thing to the very end. We're going to play hardball on this because we're right." As Bailey comes to the plate, however, he is likely to face some smoking fastballs...