Word: dimensionally
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The weightless scenes are also genuine. They were shot aboard NASA's KC-135 jet, which flies a special, parabolic trajectory to produce almost a minute of weightlessness at a time. The shots of the astronauts enjoying weightlessness early in the mission, performing somersaults and tossing sunglasses and tape players...
A bit too polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates...
The main task of the present generation of politicians is not, I think, to ingratiate themselves with the public through the decisions they take or their smiles on television. It is not to go on winning elections and ensuring themselves a place in the sun till the end of their...
Olajuwon has taken his talent to progressively higher levels, adding a new dimension every year: better free-throw shooting, a base-line jumper, a new hook shot. The player who once said, "I like to dunk and dunk and dunk" now has a dozen shots in his arsenal. He is...
Of course, the two trade-offs aren't strictly comparable. That qualitative dimension of death by bombing stubbornly persists. However I may argue for a cool assessment of horror, the fact remains that a single explosion scares people more than the background noise of highway death. Proposed anti-terrorist laws...