Word: ejector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowman's complex act parallels that of the australopithicus: his use of the pod ejector to re-enter the craft was improvisational, the mechanism undoubtedly designed for a different purpose--this referring to the use of bone as weapon-tool. Finally in committing murder, Bowman has essentially lost his dehumanization and become an archetypal new being: one worthy of the transcendental experience that follows. For the last part of the film, we must assume Bowman an individual by virtue of his improvised triumph over the complex computer...
...innovation. Its president, William Hewitt, 48, a San Francisco-born marketing expert, is only the fifth man to head the company since John Deere founded it. The company's history is largely one of careful, unspectacular growth. Yet Deere produced the first cotton harvester, the first hay bale ejector and the first power steering for tractors. Under Hewitt, president for eight years, the emphasis has switched even more strongly to innovation, and Deere has abandoned its conservative image...
...shipyard. Behind her were nine months of overhaul and modernization. New electronic and sonar gear had been installed. To put in the intricate equipment, several holes had been cut in the boat's hull-the largest was a yard square, to make way for an improved garbage ejector...
...guard against temporary failure of landing controls, the Vostok was crammed with enough food and water for a ten-day whirl. For low-altitude emergencies, there were two escape hatches and an ejector seat equipped with a parachute, emergency rations, an oxygen supply and a radio transmitter. As he spun past the stars, Yuri could study his surroundings through three heat-resistant portholes. Even if he spotted no landmarks 188 miles below, he could get his bearings by watching an "optical orientator"-a cockpit globe synchronized to turn with the 18,000-mile-an-hour flight of the orbiting spaceship...