Word: boxes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Catholic rights in Northern Ireland. It is not a question, as it was in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], of exchanging the bullet for the ballot. They have the ballot box, but they do not even take part in the Northern Ireland Assembly. What they do not like is that the ballot box does not give them the majority, and therefore some of them resort to the bullet and those few intimidate the others. Mind you, I understand the people of Northern Ireland; once you have got terrorism it paralyzes many people who would otherwise want to help. One must not judge...
...recent years, even piloting jet aircraft as big or bigger than the shuttle. So why not space? Indeed, in a Marxist-Leninist bow to women's lib, the Soviets launched a woman cosmonaut precisely 20 years ago, though a second did not follow until last summer (see box). "It's too bad," scowls Ride, "that society isn't to the point yet where the country could just send up a woman astronaut and nobody would think twice about...
...like those in a car. Optional grooming aids were added to the personal kits of the astronauts (though Ride pointedly has not said whether she will wear lipstick or powder for the inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy was already designed with women in mind. Instead of the flexible hose used by the male-only crews of the old Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, NASA provided a wide cuplike attachment that fits over the crotch. A curtain is being added...
Everybody in Hollywood expected George Lucas' Return of the Jedi to do very well. Still, no one was prepared for the human tidal wave that has inundated the theaters since the film opened May 25. The first day set a box-office record of $6,219,629, and that was a Wednesday, usually a slow day in the movie business. Friday beat that record, with $6,437,005, and Sunday jumped to $8,440,105. When the week was over, Return of the Jedi had made $45,311,004, nearly double the amount of the previous highest scorer...
...reviews were mixed, but many in the largely youthful audiences have already returned to see the picture a second or third time, giving some indication that Jedi may remain a box-office bonanza for weeks and months to come. "I saw the first two movies only 15 times each," apologized one young man in a Manhattan queue. "But my friend Abby saw them 150 times each. She even sounds like Darth Vader sometimes." However it sounds, such talk fills Hollywood with awe and sets gold chains tinkling with envy up and down Rodeo Drive. If George Lucas does not have...