Word: digestable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the result is a far cry from live, Williams' routines are more entertaining than most A.M. banter. But even so, the rest of Good Morning, Vietnam is incongruous enough with the comedy sequences that, taken as a whole, the film is difficult to digest. Director Barry Levinson, ecshewing the by-now-traditional shots of Vietnamese villages being burned and peasants shot, intersperses the Saigon sequences with dream-like footage of patrol boats cruising, soldiers milling about, helicopters taking...
...taking the seeds offered from across the sea and cultivating them into our own Japanese garden," the long-beaked cartoon crane explains to the audio-animatronic figures of a little girl and her brother. "Culture doesn't just come; it develops slowly, richly. Generation after generation has to digest and refine these marvelous influences." The message may seem a little heavy for an amusement park, but the audience in the country's first revolving Carousel Theater is all ears. As the stage revolves, the sagacious bird launches into a lecture on the virtues of isolationism. Finally the Feathered One concludes...
...line nondigital set. Given these prices, sales have been understandably sluggish. Digital VCRs will account for less than 3% of the 15 million videocassette recorders sold this year, and the high-tech TVs are not expected to fare much better. Observes David Lachenbruch, editorial director of TV Digest: "Consumers are not prepared to pay twice as much for one set with two pictures. They would rather buy two sets with one picture each." That could change quickly, of course, as the cost of the electronic components falls. "In the future," says Shinichi Makino, an executive at Toshiba, "digital will...
...please him. He does not like ostentation. So the Reagan folks will ply their important visitor with plain native dishes like Maryland crab and pumpkin pie. CIA analysts believe Gorbachev's alimentary canal can handle even Reagan's favorite, macaroni and cheese. But will he be able to digest the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle, who is scheduled to attend the state dinner? In Geneva, Gorbachev cooled at the sight of Perle, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense and a powerful skeptic about Soviet intentions for the past 20 years...
Monsanto scientists responded by changing the site to South Carolina and reformulating their strategy. Instead of using bacteria with the insecticide- producing gene, the company applied to release a strain engineered only to produce enzymes that enable it to digest lactose and X-Gal. Researchers could then detect the presence of migrating bacteria by dropping soil samples onto the lactose-based, X-Gal-laced growth medium...