Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...something in Arnold that sparks the pinwheeling imaginations of action directors. They get him to lift trucks, carry huge trees on his shoulder, upend telephone booths with little punks inside. In Mark L. Lester's puckishly violent Commando, he righteously kills dozens of people in his determination to save a single life; as one helpful woman observes of Arnold and his adversaries, "These guys eat too much red meat." John McTiernan's Predator (1987) twists another commando genre into a jungle monster movie: half a dozen supersoldiers infiltrate enemy territory -- and Arnold gets to go mano a mano with...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So in 1975, he organized a rural workers' union. To stop the deforestation, union members and their families formed human blockades around areas scheduled to be cleared. These Gandhiesque acts, called empates, helped save thousands of acres but also made Mendes unpopular with landowners and local officials...
...opening a storefront, Kinko's makes an informal contract with the community to produce facsimiles for its customers, regardless of content (save copyright and First Amendment restrictions). Thus, the situation becomes as clear-cut as Skokie or Deep Throat...
Among the most popular titles are how-to guides like 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press; $4.95). Such books are well intentioned and useful, but they may have the half-life of New Year's resolutions. The defeat of California's Big Green and other ecological initiatives in the recent election demonstrated that voters are still confused about the best way to deal with environmental concerns...