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...Reagan, standing against a blue backdrop (always blue) and delivering in patented style (bob of the head, hint of a grin) a homey Americanism. Cut to the faces of his listeners, some aglow in admiration, others damp with tears. A band bursts into melody, balloons sail heavenward, and cheers erupt from a thousand throats...
...play's power consists primarily in the political statements implied by the struggle between Fifty and the Capsulon. Fifty (John Lawrence Chatty) plays the individual battling the system with the proper mixture of defiance and control, never allowing his frustration to erupt into histrionics. Similarly, Fifty's friend (Michael Preston) offers a solid, if at times overly affected, picture of the archetypal blind follower...
...compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices to $599 and $999. It reduced prices on its other personal computers by up to 23%. Smaller companies that make personal machines similar to IBM's may have to follow the lead, and observers predict that a nasty price war could erupt this summer...
...American Revolution did not erupt overnight. A long series of protests, such as the Boston Tea Party and the Harvard graduation of 1768--all the graduates wore clothing made of American cloth--should have given the House of Commons ample warning of the unrest. Yet prejudice against the colonists and their abilities, and the false sense of superiority in the British government, created the blunders that caused the American revolution, Tuchman argues...
Every eleven years the sun's outer layers erupt in a blaze of turbulent magnetic storms, characterized by an increase in sunspots and fiery explosions known as solar flares. In February 1980, on the eve of one such outburst, NASA launched an instrument-packed scientific satellite called the Solar Maximum Mission. Nicknamed Solar Max, the spacecraft was to photograph and monitor the sun's activity, which even at a distance of 93 million miles can disrupt global communications and power transmissions, influence weather and endanger space voyagers...