Word: boomeranger
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...earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco in 1986, steal a whale or two and transport their precious cargo . . . back to the future...
...Vegas, whose towering, grandiose signs Writer Tom Wolfe once characterized as "Boomerang Modern" and "Flash Gordon Ming-Alert Spiral," neon has not faded. The skyline remains an electric testimony to a raw and rambunctious American spirit. With its arrival elsewhere in so many shops and galleries and trendy facades, neon, which after all is the Greek word for new, seems to have found a means of staying that way. The medium has learned to bend with changing tastes...
Huffy's aerodynamically designed Olympic cycles, which carried the Raleigh name, were dubbed "Funny Bikes" because of their small front wheels, large, solid back ones made of plastic, and boomerang-shaped handle bars. "They were the first attempt at a radical departure in bicycle design," says Huffy's Michael Melton, technical director of the U.S. cycling team, who developed them. In Los Angeles, the Funny Bikes' riders pedaled to five medals...
...autobiography (written in collaboration with his longtime screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière) is thus in part the testament of an old man passing ironic judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally...
Ironically, the release of some 250,000 pages of documents have proved to be a boomerang. The files forge stronger links between Julius Rosenberg and Soviet agents. The case against Ethel for conspiracy to commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving...