Word: brainstormers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies...
...BRAINSTORM...
...this for Brainstorm: it offers no visible evidence of desperation. This is remarkable in that its star, Natalie Wood, died before shooting was completed. As a result, MGM/UA tried to abandon the film, over the protests of Director Douglas Trumbull and the insurers...
...this against Brainstorm: it bears no sign of a highly mobilized imagination at work. Wood's death cannot be blamed. Her role as the estranged wife of a research scientist appears to have been intrinsically sketchy and secondary; she is present on the relatively few occasions when the film seems to require her. The problem lies with the scientist and his research...
...most of the day Saturday, the rotunda area just outside the convention floor of the Springfield Civic Center buzzed with activity. Each presidential campaign had a trailer stationed as its convention headquarters in that area, and strategists and delegates swarmed through to browse and brainstorm before the presidential preference vote...