Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book bids escalate, so does the publishers' anxiety that they may be setting themselves up for major pratfalls. Says Evans: "Every day somebody gives us a time bomb. They look very pretty, and they're only costing you $2 million, but they're going to go off." Among last year's crop of six-figure books that failed to make the national best-seller lists: Jay McInerney's third novel, Story of My Life (Atlantic Monthly Press); George Bernau's first novel, Promises to Keep (Warner Books); and Studs Terkel's The Great Divide (Pantheon Books...
Recriminations keep dogging the tragedy of Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up last December over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270. Britain's Ministry of Transport came under fire for having failed to respond soon enough to terrorist bomb threats against U.S. airliners. Last week West German officials were embarrassed by charges that Bonn may have fumbled a chance to prevent the bomb from being smuggled onto the plane...
...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...
...corporate jungle is understanding dinosaurs. So say Albert Bernstein, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Ore., and Sydney Craft Rozen, a former English instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. In Dinosaur Brains (John Wiley; $18.95) they examine the prehistoric reptile that lurks inside every employee like an evolutionary time bomb. Beneath that fragile fabric of reason called human intelligence, they argue, beats a powerful engine of lizard logic that demands instant gratification and lives to dominate. While the dinosaurs are long gone, their brains "are the foundations on which our own brains are built...
Researchers around the world dropped everything when they heard the startling announcement that the nuclear process at the heart of both the sun and the H- bomb could be duplicated in a test tube. But after more than a month of trying to reproduce the original experiment, most laboratories have nothing to show. -- Fusion fiascoes through the years. See SCIENCE...