Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becomes more of a star than most of the characters she used to profile. After a few years, she writes her first novel, a steamy social satire and, of course, a sure best seller. It is the kind of dizzying ascent that Sally Quinn, the Washington Post's famous acid pen of the '70s, might have chronicled with flair. But she can't: the reporter-turned- hostessturned-novelist is Sally Quinn...
...unknown planet, Aliens takes up with Weaver, who has been asleep with her cat in a space capsule for 57 years. Fascinated by her description of the creatures, which gestate inside humans and have acid for blood, several scientists launch a quest to catch some aliens for evaluation...
...aftermath of Chernobyl, moreover, the prospects for nuclear energy have become even bleaker. And yet, say many experts, there is no long-range alternative. The oil crisis has receded but is likely to become a problem again within decades. Coal is still plentiful, but its consequences -- air pollution, acid rain and the threat of global warming caused by the greenhouse effect -- will limit its use. "I'm very concerned about our energy future," says Lyle Wilcox, the Department of Energy's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactor Research. Without nuclear energy, he claims, "we're left to burning...
...product that money can't buy, Upjohn's minoxidil lotion is getting a ! lot of attention. Doonesbury has taken acid note of it, as has the Cathy comic strip, while ABC's Nightline has given it more serious treatment. To millions of men, it may, in fact, be a more promising potion than the elixir of love. Reason: minoxidil, which is otherwise used to treat high blood pressure, apparently can regrow hair on balding heads. When a Washington hospital announced three years ago that it was seeking gleaming pates on which to test the hair restorer, 10,000 eager volunteers...
...engineers. The copper skin had been fastened to the superstructure by means of more than 1,800 iron armature bars, all different shapes and sizes. At the rate of just twelve a day, the armatures have been replaced by individually forged steel bars. The exterior, blemished by acid rain and 100-year accretions of bird excrement, was bathed and scrubbed. Only two bits of grafting were necessary: the tip of the nose and some hair curls are new copper...