Word: antenna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandfathers' faith in the future seems, in our day of acid rain, exploding shuttles, decaying inner cities and general creeping dystopia. The mood is epitomized in objects like the male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal teardrop desk-mounted pencil sharpener...
...manufacturer backs its product with an unusual one-year guarantee. American Antenna of Elgin, Ill., reimburses owners of its K40 receivers for speeding fines if the users are zapped by police radar...
...dish owners, however, are less interested in disrupting other people's TV signals than in ending the disruption of their own. When home receiving dishes first became available in 1979, they were a boon for rural residents who lived outside the range of cable hookups. With a dish-shaped antenna aimed at one of several communications satellites circling the globe, these viewers could watch not just satellite-beamed entertainment channels (which cable systems pick up with their own dishes and distribute to subscribers via cables), but foreign broadcasts, corporate video conferences, even the private transmissions of network programs like...
...beat the March 16 legislative elections, which the Socialists are in danger of losing. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a leading Mitterrand foe, even tried to thwart the channel's start-up by closing access to the top of the Eiffel Tower, where technicians were about to install an antenna. Government officials stepped in to have it reopened...
Thousands of motorists in the cape area, listening to their radios, pulled off highways and faced the ocean. On Challenger's middeck, Onizuka, Jarvis and McAuliffe had nothing to do except wait. At dozens of points around the globe, radar tracking stations had now synchronized their antenna systems with the countdown sequence in Florida...