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...sixth hour. Most dancers are now showing the effects of all the dance hours logged. Our feet hurt and our leg muscles beg for mercy, but like the climber who tackles the mountain "because it's there," we valiantly strive onward. Donna Summer's "Finger on the Trigger (Love is in Control)" propels us forward, though the minutes tick by more and more slowly...
...virtually no competition in sight. The networks were fat and happy, with surging ratings and profits, and a flock of series that melded quality and popularity into the Golden Age of Sitcoms: All in the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore. Then, in 1975, two little-noted events conspired to trigger the revolution. Time Inc.'s fledgling pay-TV company, Home Box Office, bounced a clear video signal off a satellite orbiting 22,300 miles above the earth, paving the way for national cable networks; and Sony introduced the U.S. consumer to the first successful home videocassette recorder, the Betamax...
...longer plausible that a Soviet armored blitzkrieg into West Germany would trigger a U.S. retaliatory blow from North Dakota, since that in turn might trigger a counterretaliation against...
...Japan's; it is $154 for every man, woman and child on earth. It has mushroomed from about $ 100 billion only twelve years ago, keeping borrowers in bondage and lenders in growing suspense. Much of it may never be paid off, and a major default somewhere, somehow, could trigger far-reaching political and economic reactions everywhere. The global economy is sitting on a debt bomb...
Still of the Night is an intellectual thriller; it excites the mind rather than the trigger finger. As such, this stylish and excellently acted film grabs the audience's attention with an intensity reminiscent of Hitchcock's finest, keeping its suspense at a peak from start to finish. The question asked in the film's newspaper ads--"Did she or didn't she?"--is misleading. Only her psychiatrist knows for sure...