Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one of many. Despite a rapidly expanding and incredibly punctual communications network, subways and trains are packed at 250% to 300% of capacity during rush hours. Several of the city's wards are sinking below sea level at an alarming rate because industrial plants have drawn off so much water from underground streams. As if all this were not enough, geologists have warned that Tokyo is just about ripe for another major earthquake-and that at least 3,000,000 would die if it were anywhere near as intense as the 1923 temblor that killed...
...located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep in mud that there should be little danger of pollution during the interim...
...intense that no light or other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations. It becomes a black hole, or as Cameron calls it, a "collapsar." If a star-crossed spaceship ever strayed close enough to such a cosmic abyss, it would be drawn immediately into it and vanish completely from sight...
From its inception as a largely Government-funded experiment in 1963, America's SST has drawn critical fire. No less a Jovian figure than Charles Lindbergh publicly questioned its advisability, and scientists were debating its possible faults right up to the moment of the vote. Although some of the rhetoric was wrapped in unconscionably scary language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel...
Unsure of himself and perhaps of America. Forman has resorted to caricatures instead of characterizations, and drawn not on ingenuity but on bile. Even the device of the audition, which Forman has employed in two previous films, reinforces the general feeling of nastiness. He shoots the scene "live" -as far as most of the participants know, it is a real audition-and the fumblings and failings become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing...