Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better Off Dead uses this plot line not as a primary force, but as a cinematic exoskeleton under which the filmmaker can pit dueling concepts of American culture against each other. His tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...
...deployment by the middle or late 1990s or after the year 2000. That does not differ greatly from the optimistic timetable for deploying comparable elements of an American Star Wars defense. The booklet also rather grudgingly concedes that in one vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union." But the Kremlin is trying to catch up, it warns, in part by illegally obtaining sophisticated American...
This fall the slabs will be subjected to electrical scanning. Corliss T. Van Horn, a Facilities Maintenance official overseeing the inspection, said the scanning is intended to detect flaws in the granite...
...West Germany dispatched 56 members of a disaster-relief unit, along with five paramedics and twelve search dogs, heavy salvage gear, a medical emergency center, a mobile kitchen and medical supplies. From Britain came four London firemen, who brought with them nine thermal cameras, which use infrared sensors to detect the body heat of buried survivors...
...companies in the program are pursuing several avenues of research. Boeing, TRW, Lockheed, Hughes Aircraft and Grumman are among the many firms working on satellite surveillance and tracking systems to detect enemy missiles on launch, discriminate decoys from actual warheads and verify that the targets are destroyed by the Star Wars defense. Another crucial task is developing the weapons that would be used to blast attacking missiles and warheads out of the sky. TRW, Lockheed and Rockwell are studying the feasibility of so-called directed energy weapons, including lasers and particle beams. Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and Teledyne are considering...