Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew December would be a learning experience...I'm not going to hit the panic button yet," he says...
...MAKING OF MANKIND by Richard E. Leakey Button; 256 pages...
...griminess is as dipped in materialism as the somber sootiness of the factory. Like factories, they furnish the means of subsistence--a numbingly overspiced gruel of colorful flashes, bangs, whooshes, titillating, not nourishing the senses. Their predictability flexes but little the imagination. Punching in the clock; pressing the start button. Filing form A and tightening bolt C evokes the practiced and repetitive pacing of the player's dot across a screen. Punching out the clock; GAME OVER...
Like squires crowding around a knight before a joust, the people huddle around the guy pressing the Fire button. The cynics stand back, sipping their icy Cokes like isolated exjousters grinning in their ale. All stare at the machines, not at each other. The glare stifles even the noisy. These would-be heroes can forge only a cold camaraderie as they pursue their isolated quests. Searches for ever more tenuous shadow. People enter an arcade together. Inside, they separate...
...White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear war fought on European territory. Said he: "I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button." Haig set off a demonstration bombshell of his own by announcing that NATO had a contingency plan to fire a warning nuclear "shot across the bow," if needed, to deter a Soviet conventional attack in Europe; Weinberger said he knew of no such policy...