Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area of health and safety, and its team include such diverse specialists as Louis J. Diberardinis, an industrial hygienist who evaluates chemical exposures and deals with asbestos-related problems; three safety and construction as well as hazardous chemical disposal; David E. Breen, a fire protection engineer who tries to detect fire hazards; Jessie A. Morton, who heads the sanitation inspection branch: Harding, who handles infectious agents and genetics research hazards: Alpert, the newest of the group, who deals with pest control: and a radiation protection group, headed by Dr. Jacob Shapiro, a radiological safety engineer, and Johnson...
...zealously. Says he: "It is as if Lucas were a famous composer who said to me, 'Here's a 120-piece orchestra. Here's my music. I'd like you to conduct.' " In this maestro's view, Kershner had carelessly strayed from the true faith. Marquand was disturbed to detect that in Empire Artoo-Detoo was occasionally painted with black squares instead of his customary blue, and that Darth Vader sometimes wielded his light-saber with only one hand, like an oldtime Texas sheriff. "Everyone knows that a light-saber is too heavy for one hand," Marquand says indignantly...
Researchers at West Germany's Mannheim University have applied modern technology to detect minute variations in pressure applied to paper by writers. They are developing an electric grid microscope to measure precisely...
...largest dealer in Nazi mementos, spots one or two fakes a month among the thousands of Third Reich items he handles every year. Many are signed photos of Hitler, which, if genuine, are worth from $350 to $ 1,000 to collectors. Such photo forgeries are often simple to detect because Hitler rarely signed a picture unless it had been taken by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who stamped a distinctive seal on his photos...
...respectability. The best parts of A Private View deal with the '20s, when moguls were old-fashioned family men who made sure that their values got into their pictures. Selznick gracefully catches the small-town quality about the Hollywood of her childhood. Readers with a sociological eye may detect the beginnings of the suburban style (commuters, private clubs, recreational wardrobes) that would spread decades later...