Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weather Channel, powered up their camcorders and recorded a minute of programming right off the screen. Then, with the camera still running, they went into their yards and videotaped the sky just as the star Aldebaran slipped behind the moon. Finally they came back inside, taped a bit more TV and went back...
...last week's mass moon watch, the professionals needed the dilettantes badly. When Aldebaran slipped behind the moon, it never slipped completely. Rather, it just arced around a bit of horizon, seeming to flicker as it passed behind mountains and peeked over valleys. The pattern of flashes allows astronomers to trace the lunar profile, refining surveys taken by past space probes. Since observers on different parts of the earth would see the star obscured by different parts of the moon, however, the more sightings scientists collected, the more lunar real estate they would cover...
...that Stallone doesn't love action films. He sees them as an updating of "the great mythological tales; we just changed the wardrobe a bit." Rambo was the prototype of the one-man-army film. "Yeah," he says with a laugh, "I strapped on the old covered wagon and pulled it across the plains of inventiveness." (He'll probably do another Rambo.) But he admits that some roles he "phoned in--and there's nothing more pathetic than to be complacent in the arts." He has long wanted to do a film "that will be remembered for more than just...
Brodsky also gives an excellent performance, though her maniacal passion grows a bit thin at times. But she does manage to convince the audience that though she is violently insane--or perhaps, because she is--the men in the show are still extremely attracted to her. The character of Bingo does not give Hawkes, usually a fantastic performer, much breadth to work with, but he still manages to give a vibrant, though quickly broken, spirit to a potentially lifeless character...
...large part, she acts a bit like a stargazing astronomer, surveying the skies for an interesting sight, then analyzing it in painstaking detail. In a chapter called "Heat Wave," for example, she zooms in on the development of the climate control system and the subsequent battle for incoming air waged by the different engineering factions. The engine guys needed the air to cool their oil and transmission fluids, the fuel folks wanted it to keep the alternator from overheating, and--of course--the climate people had to have enough air to pump into the interior. They could solve the whole...