Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italian seaside resort city of Rimini, 600,000 youths, sporting San Diego Chargers T shirts, designer jeans and plain work clothes, poured down Via della Fiera. Another tide of the summer fun-and-sun set heading for a beach party? Not quite. They were on their way to the ultramodern auditorium in the new fairgrounds for Mass and then perhaps to a seminar on human rights in Eastern Europe or a lecture by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, on God and the mass media. And if in the midst of all this high seriousness the kids seemed...
...wave after wave rolls landward from the ocean, breaks and fades away sighing down the shingle of the beach, so the generations of men follow one another, sometimes quietly, sometimes after a storm, with noisy turbulence," the conservative president said...
...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...
...college film festival? An awards competition for advertising commercials? No, it was a convention of computer specialists collectively known as SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics). The films on waves, beach chairs and lamps -- the hits of the convention -- demonstrat- ed the state of the art in computer graphics, a field with increasing applications to architecture, medicine, engineering, flight training and motion pictures. All three were created by Pixar, a San Rafael, Calif., company that in only seven months has established itself as one of the world's premier producers of photographic- quality computer-animated images...
...waves shown in Dallas, Programmer Bill Reeves resurrected a mathematical model, first formulated in the 19th century, of the elliptical movement of water molecules. The results are striking. Says Reeves: "So far, this is the most accurate computer- generated se- quence that demonstrates the interaction between waves and the beach...