Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silver platter. Presidents and their Administrations naturally want to feed out information as they see fit, preferably in such a way as to make them look good. Last week Richard Nixon, who has always had trouble with the press, set up a system to cushion or deflect this inevitable conflict, which is inevitably known as the credibility...
...next year's models. The rail, actually an 8-in. section of high-strength sheet metal, will be welded out of sight inside the door. In the event of an impact on the side of the car, the rail will give way gradually but with resilience enough to deflect the oncoming automobile and cut down the danger to the occupants of the struck car. Of course, if the oncoming vehicle is a skidding Thunderbird or Mark III, the occupants presumably need not worry. Before the crash occurs and the G. M. guard rail has to prove itself, the Ford...
...serious anti-war movie cannot be told in the same cacciatore style that works so well with the Beatles or Zero Mostel in a toga. Of the welter of punches Lester aims at his broad target, only a few can land with appreciable force. The rest necessarily have to deflect off each other, mutually weakening themselves. When John Lennon, in his non-Beatle debut, dies, he dies in a realistic ugly field with realistic blood spewing from his abdomen. But he doesn't just die realistically. He sits there, observes the blood oozing out, looks up at the audience...
...keeping a gyroscopically-controlled mirror pointed directly at Venus through a port in the plane's roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists...
...Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who leaves his stage-side perch to argue with Marat and deflect the action; by the blank verse narration of the herald, who prompts, cajoles and apologizes; by the petulant interruptions of M. Courmier, upset by the political content of the skit; and by the eruptions of the mental patients, who are paradoxically part of, and apart from, the aggressive "message" of the play...