Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief tangible benefit of missions that put people in space, however, is the publicity they attract. The sense of danger and excitement they create--however unnecessary--makes people feel good about them-selves and their country...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This bio-pic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of cottoning to the sexual and class danger he held for Middle America. But Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
...studies so far have merely raised more questions. For example, How exactly do electromagnetic fields produce the alterations in cells? Are the changes temporary or permanent? Do they reflect normal adjustment or a harmful effect? Equally mystifying is what kind of exposure might constitute a danger. Is five minutes in a high-intensity field worse than 24 hours in a weak field? Says Imre Gyuk, manager of the electromagnetic program at the Department of Energy: "We don't at present have a scientific basis for regulatory action...
...chief negotiators seemed almost chummy when the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks resumed in Geneva last week. U.S. envoy Richard Burt joked about the danger of falling asleep due to jet lag, and his Soviet counterpart, Yuri Nazarkin, quipped that he had not yet mastered the jargon of arms control. Then, as talks progressed, Burt put forth a surprising proposal that threatened to sour the mood...
...modern and classic. He thinks fast and shoots straight. He has city reflexes that help him beat the big boys at hardball. Yet he stokes memories of the lone man on a horse, silhouetted against the craggy horizon and setting sun of Old West values. He has the requisite danger for big-screen stardom -- the stubbornness in pursuit of ideals, the slow anger when pushed, the threat in a face that can mask its intentions -- even as his actions inspire trust. He could be a husband, a lover, a chief of state. And now Costner is poised to tote...