Word: trashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four plots don't make us feel any better. They just help us begin to appreciate the gratitude we owe the folks at ABC--the pacesetters in the cutesy trash industry. Sunday Lovers' separate scenarios--each written and directed by a different person--so completely rely on television and porno flicks that we are not surprised when the producers fall back on cliched trick endings to escape from beneath the mountain of one-liners they have created. Instead of thinking, "My, wasn't that a hair-brained half-hour, completely devoid of artistic merit," we are supposed...
...infernal quadrangle straight out of Gone With the Wind (Lane, Sam, Fielding and Constance playing the roles of Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie) with motives and M.O.s provocatively askew; randy women jackknifing their long bare legs around any man who will come near a canopied bed; meta-trash dialogue like "You're trouble, girl, nothin' but trouble." At the moment, a crushing share of the dramatic burden falls on the strong, hairy shoulders of Mark Harmon. His character, who is both rising-star politician and star-crossed lover, as yet shows no consuming letch for power...
...energy costs was also difficult. The price of many building materials has soared in the past two years. A standard eight-foot two-by-four, for example, has jumped in price from 97? in 1978 to $1.92 last year, while the rental fees on dumpsters, which are large trash bins used at construction sites, almost trebled to $72 a month during the same period. But the two entrepreneurs found ways to cut costs. One gambit was to drive their 1958 International truck across the Mexican border to buy gasoline in Tijuana...
...Administration. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon are Model T artifacts in comparison. Columbia, with booster rockets and fuel tank, weighs 2.7 million Ibs.; it is controlled by computers loaded with more than 600,000 lines of exquisitely precise program codes; it has pumps the size of trash cans that can discharge superheated gases at the rate of half a ton a second. Barring the reality of flying saucers, Columbia is the most ambitious and versatile spacecraft ever contrived. Heretofore, space explorers have had to blast payloads into the heavens with rockets that later burned up, falling back...
Later, Nancy Reagan came out of the house in jeans and bright kerchief, carrying a box of trash. While her husband spends most of his time outdoors, usually with tools in his hands, she is indoors, talking for long periods of time on the telephone, reading, planning. Reagan hates the telephone and is almost grateful that Nancy uses it so often. The ranch is plainly her concession to her husband. She prefers being around people. But time alone with him is worth the remoteness, and she accepts...