Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watchful glances at the still rain-swollen Meramec River across the road. "I don't know what to think about dioxin," said the 60-year-old construction worker. "I've lived here for 13 years. The birds are still flying, dogs are still running around." Then he bent over to turn up a strip of plywood, revealing a colony of worms in the dirt. "See there. If something was wrong, do you think they'd still be living...
...Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. In London in 1980 and a year later on Broadway, David Edgar's 8½hour adaptation of the Dickens novel met with a rapturous reception. In a time when many serious playwrights are hell-bent on reducing life's dilemmas to their sparest parts, panhandling for quiddity, Edgar and Directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird served up a copious celebration of life in all its wickedness and wonder. Led by Roger Rees as the callow, rigorous hero, 39 R.S.C. actors played 150 parts; they...
...Island in March, 1979. Yet Ford well knows that, relative to what might happen. Three Mile Island was only a minor mishap. In one incident in 1961 that the A.E.C. did not "take seriously," an entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major nuclear plant the results would be catastrophic; as Ford optimistically writes. "The forecast accident, if it occurs, will very likely mean the prompt end of commercial nuclear power...
...computer operator, maintain their love for one another despite adversity. Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and several others from the original provide the pilots and ground control technicians necessary to foul up the flight and embody running jokes. But placed in the nebulous future, this year's doom-bent flight takes places aboard a computer-controlled lunar shuttle, with a bow to 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries came to a halt for three minutes while the two men talked volubly through an interpreter. The tall, stooped Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward to speak to the diminutive Chinese envoy. By contrast, Andropov's other greetings seemed lukewarm, even toward such friends of the Soviet Union as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...