Word: dish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...route of a culture stuck in the gridlock of its own sophistication) and the dream of a utopian machine future. One could have a sculpture that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...toward the carriage, an unusually fleet- footed Queen hurried to retrieve him. Meanwhile, on their joyride, the couple's unlikely chaperone was a gift from the royal family, a four-foot-tall teddy bear. At the back of their carriage, under a home made replica of a satellite dish, was a message that advised, PHONE HOME...
...turned out to be John MacDougall, 25, a part-time engineer at a satellite transmission facility in Ocala, Fla., and owner of a home-dish dealership whose business had been hurt by scrambling. MacDougall pleaded guilty to the unauthorized transmission of an interfering signal. If a plea- bargain arrangement is accepted, he will be fined $5,000 and sentenced to one year of probation. In a statement, MacDougall said he took the action to "focus public attention on a problem that affects millions of Americans." But he acknowledged, "In retrospect, I realize the means I used may not have been...
...after the incident they were confident there was enough information to eventually locate the culprit. But it was up to the FCC to track him down through an elaborate process of elimination. To override HBO's signal, it was determined, the intruder must have had access to a large dish -- at least seven meters in diameter -- equipped with a strong transmitter. That limited the number of possible sources to about 580 commercial "uplink" facilities. Next, after studying tapes of Captain Midnight's message, investigators pinpointed the make and model of the character generator used; only about 100 sites had that...
...scandal emerged as one facet in a developing national debate over the government's role in supporting research--a debate set off, in part, by controversies over President Reagan's "Star Wars" program. National intelligence agencies do not dish out cash on the same scale as the Department of Defense, but "spook" funding still poses a double threat to responsible scholarship. First, it imposes the risk of the government censoring or biasing sensitive research, and second, such support can destroy the credibility of both the scholar and his institution...