Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YOUR A I the console of a futuristic space video game. Five enemy ships blink at you malevolently. You have 15 ships: if they get zapped you're out. You out number your opponent, but each of the enemy ships has five missiles. You naturally fuel threatened...
Even the metrically untutored do not blink when doctors prescribe 500 mg (milligrams) of antibiotics or electricians recommend 15 A (ampere) fuses. Yet just as they have resisted learning foreign languages, Americans have long balked at changing measures. Says David Gorin, president of the nonprofit American National Metric Council: "The problem has deep roots. It goes back to a time when our economy was dominant and whatever we made was the biggest and best...
Nastassia, Isabella, Joanna?elegant names, radiant new beauties in the world of movies and modeling. Their allure is distinctively European: it starts with their wide, serious eyes which do not blink at fame...
...right Surkov reflected Darwinism doesn't explain it. To create all this mysterious existence in only ten thousand million years--the merest blink of an eye. The spontaneous creation of order like the improvisatore's "Cleopatra" No, I can't believe it. It may have happened by impulse, but it's not random...
...unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context of a Holly wood-style epic. At the end of the play, the audience sees credits on the screen rather than a row of bowing actors. It is unfortunate, however, when a device...