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18 Swidon Wide - December
HOOVER • HOTPOINT CASH LOANS Sneakers at the MGM
SPECIALIST Lisa Clarke wonders how safe the 'phone lines are
up to £200 There's a powerful message in Martin Bishop (Robert Redford)
J. PHILLIPS 'Sneakers', now showing at the leads a group of high-tech experts
Payments collected MGM. The next world war won't be played by Sidney Poitier, River
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Repairs to most makes of Insurance tion. Whoever has control of itwins. Strathairn who scramble to retrieve
Washing Machines, Dryers, This message is wrapped within the 'key to all information' from bad
Dishwashers, Microwaves Written quotations an interesting plot that rings true in guy Cosmo (Ben Kingsley).
and Vacuum Cleaners available on request our computer age, and is acted to The film also stars Mary 'Dances
perfection by an all-star cast. with Wolves' McDonnell as Liz, for-
Hoover Trained But why is it called 'Sneakers'? merly Bishop's girlfriend and now
Local Engineer WINSLOW BROS Do the stars run around in smelly his reluctant accomplice.
All work guaranteed Morley Street old trainers? The term was coined Director Phil Robinson, who gave
No VAT to pay Swindon at a 1981 computer convention to us 'Field of Dreams', wrote the
referto IBMs children programmers screenplay with 'War Games' writ-
Tel: 526656 or 827804 Tel: 643085 anytime (who wear trainers rather than brown ers and information technology
shoes). Also known as Black Hat- friends Lawrence Lasker and Walter
ters or Tiger Teams, Sneakers are Parkes.
also individuals who break into com- Using computer encryption as a
YOUR LOCAL GARAGE DOOR puter systems in order to test their plot device, the writers explored a
security. 'what if' possibility of a 'black box'
SPECIALIST They're the kind of people who that could potentially decode any
will read your mail, bug your office, computer data in the world. The
* Up and Over Garage Doors listen to your 'phone calls, access writers also drew from real-life
the contents of your computer, sneakers and state-of-the-art secu-
supplied, fitted, repaired
videotape your meetings or break rity inventions to bring the scenario
(spare parts available) into your bank. Pretty scary stuff if to the big screen.
* Remote Control the information from any of these It made me wonder if I can ever
gets into the wrong hands, which is quote my credit card number over
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Winton From 11 December - Home Alone II
Little Macaulay Culkin returns for a second bout of mayhem with hapless
Raynes & Co villains Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. This time he's separated from his
folks in New York during Christmas time. Will this sequal top the original
SOLICITORS as the third highest grossing movie ever made?
It certainly has a good start by opening before the school holiday break
High Street 1st Floor, Anglia House begins. Max and Lindy Leslie, guest columnists for The Link, will be
Wroughton 115/118 Commercial Road reviewing Home Alone II in the January edition.
Swindon Swindon
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Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the gang return in a seasonal Dickens
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and Peter Winton or Helen Raynes at Commercial Road tale of how a miser (Michael Caine) becomes an old softie.
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From 26 December - The Body Guard
Our Wroughton Office Is 10 minutes from West Swindon Kevin Costner stars opposite singer Whitney Houston in a romantic
and offers private carparking for clients thriller about an ex-secret service agent assigned to 'mind' a glamorous,
reckless celebrity client.