Word: chides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will have greatly improved so they will no longer get cricks in their necks (from craning to watch a TV) and elbows (from manipulating long-handled instruments of awkward design). A few dream of operating by remote control, their heads encased in virtual-reality helmets. Don't laugh, they chide skeptics. On the drawing boards at SRI International is an inkling of just such a system, one that might someday allow a surgeon in St. Louis to operate on an astronaut in low earth orbit. Even better may be novel ways of destroying diseased organs -- through heat, perhaps -- without cutting...
...memories are equally warm and fuzzy in Homefront. In this postwar soap opera set in a small Ohio town, mothers greet their returning soldier boys with "your favorite pie" and chide their kids with quaint cliches like, "You move as slow as molasses in January." Not that there isn't trouble in this paradise. One veteran comes home to a sweetheart who has fallen in love with his brother. There are stirrings of race and sex discrimination as well. A black veteran applies for work at the local factory but is told the only opening is for a janitor...
...Magubane, 58, has been on hand for most of South Africa's historic moments. He photographed Mandela's Rivonia trial in 1964 and covered the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, which claimed the lives of 69 blacks. "I had never seen so many dead people," he recalls. Later, his editor would chide him for hanging back from the bloodshed and not taking any close-ups. "From that day," he says, "I decided I was not going to get emotionally involved, or at least not until after I have done my work...