Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premise is a straightforward one. As Ripley was drifting through space after her previous close encounter of the unspeakable kind -- a flight that used up the equivalent of 57 earth years -- the alien planet was colonized. But now, suddenly, it has fallen silent. Is it possible that this wild tale of rampaging monsters she keeps telling is true? A party of Marines is sent out to investigate, and Ripley reluctantly accompanies them as a sort of Cassandra-cum-consultant...
...earth may be green but the West is definitely white. In fact that is what upsets Ronald Reagan so much about the crimes that the South Africa government commits. These guys are so, so, so white. I mean, who cares about the atrocities the Contras commit in the jungles of Nicaragua? And plus they're fighting with a Cardinal's backing...
...nucleus of another. But the spontaneous radioactive decay of nuclei goes on. The uncooled reactor core could eventually get hot enough to melt through its casing and the surrounding building, causing fires that loft radioactive material into the atmosphere. Under the worst circumstances, the core melts through the earth and in a "China Syndrome" reaches the underground water table and triggers the further release of radioactive particles. In an effort to minimize the chances for such disasters, Sweden is developing the PIUS (for Process Inherent Ultimately Safe) reactor, which is immersed in a giant pool of water. If the primary...
...critic for the New Statesman, then turned to the full-time writing of poetry, novels (G.), social criticism (Art and Revolution), films (La Salamandre), TV documentaries (Ways of Seeing). An unorthodox Marxist, he now lives in a village in the French Alps (about which he wrote Pig Earth), but he roams far. This collection of essays, his 17th book in a productive quarter- century, includes Berger's impressions of Moscow, New York City, Strasbourg and Istanbul...
...should we be doing it with such abandon? When death tolls from South Africa regularly appear on the front page of The New York Times, terrorists go unpunished for the murder of innocent tourists and dictatorial regimes are the rule in more than half of the countries on earth, can we truly rejoice in the principle of liberty...