Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard resident armchair nuke expert Paul M. Doty left this week to talk with other nuke experts at a conference on arms control in the Soviet Union. Doty, a biochemist, is a member of a special task force of both U.S. and Soviet specialists who have been meeting under the sponsorship of the Kettering Foundation of Ohio...
...Cooke himself did not actually perform in the musical numbers, instead, he confined himself to armchair...
...million device resembles nothing so much as a clumsy overstuffed armchair without a seat. On earth it weighs 340 lbs., but in zero-g an MMU can fly like a bird. A squirt or two of nitrogen gas from any of its 24 small jet thrusters can propel it in any direction. Strapped into this flying chair, an astronaut need only work the handle-like controls built into the armrests...
...show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...
...staggering variety of mythologic forms. Similarities between the designs of ancient America and Asia are not coincidental; prehistoric migrations apparently carried the seeds of cultures halfway round the world. In addition to illustrations of artifacts, the book offers a section on the main pre-Columbian sites that armchair archaeologists will find irresistible...