Word: crater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INDEED, a deterrent second strike is aimed not at hardened silos but at eminently vulnerable cities. If current missiles threaten to turn Moscow into a 600-foot crater, does the prospect of an 800-foot crater act as a substantially greater deterrent? The MX is tailor-made for one purpose the destruction of Soviet missiles in their silos...
...denies that the turmoil affected his decision to skirt tradition when he took office in 1971. The motivation, he says, was that, at the time, he had three small children, and the construction of Pusey Library created a huge crater in the Yard...
Reconstruction in the camps lags far behind the rest of Beirut. Residents of Shatila can get water only from a single pipe sticking out of the ground on the main road outside the camp. At an intersection where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater is filled with old auto tires and a rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care...
...film opens with scenes of the rebellion of 1956 that are shot in black and white with incongruous swing music playing in the background. In a smoking crater, the father of Dini Koves (Istan Znamenak), the movie's hero, is burying something. The white lightning through the smoke is actually quite impressive. During the following scene, Papa tears himself away from his family to flee back to the United States. All the participants in this emotionally charged situation, however, seem emotionally uninvolved. Papa moves as if someone offstage is yelling directions at him: Over here, no, over there...
...proof, often lethal fun. Before the evening is through, the talented five-member cast has toppled icons up and down the Great White Way, everybody from those women of the year, Lauren Bacall and Raquel Welch, to those women of every year, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. In a crater-deep voice, Nora Mae Lyng, 30, imitates Bacall in Woman of the Year...