Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief but exciting 24 hours, the big asteroid commanded everyone's attention. Astronomer Hills calculated that an asteroid the size of XF11 colliding with Earth at more than 38,000 m.p.h. would explode with the energy of 300,000 megatons--nearly 20 million times the force of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. If it hit in the ocean, he predicted, it would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater...
...immersion paid off. The atmospherics are right, down to the heraldic theme music, the swooping graphics and the story meetings ("Get me a show, people. Anything but same-sex marriage"). By keeping the pol-vs.-pol scenes brief, Markus has made the show specific enough to Nightline to satirize the genre but general enough to life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written...
...owning a computer "would be extremely inconvenient," said Frank E. Pacheco '99, Adams House Committee Chair, said during a brief interview in the Science Center Macintosh lab. "You would be at a considerable disadvantage...
Carrasco's multimedia presentation included a brief slide show and an upbeat, bilingual version of the traditional civil rights song "We Shall Overcome," during which one enthused audience member got up and danced...
...friend Marc, who fancies himself an art buff but hates the modern stuff, is appalled at the purchase and tells him so. Each of them tries to enlist the support of a third friend, Yvan, who has other things on his mind, mainly his approaching wedding. In the brief 90 minutes that French author Yasmina Reza's play takes to unfold, the three will debate modern art, lash out at each other with insults they will later regret, and generally explore the nature of their shaky friendship...