Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imaginations to postulate atoms as the basic building blocks of matter. Today, more than ever before, such exploration requires complicated machines like Fermilab's Tevatron. By pummeling the nucleus, the atom's central mass, with protons or other subatomic particles, physicists can literally tear apart the fabric of matter, somewhat like peeling layers from an onion. Every peel, however, requires increasingly powerful and costlier machines. As Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky notes, "The smaller the objects, the bigger the microscope we must use to see them...
Intervention damages the fabric of a nation, the chance of its resurrected history, the wholeness of its cultural identity...
...movie takes off on a more obviously melodramatic course. It brings on the machine's creator, now turned so cynical that he believes mankind ought to get on with its ultimate death-wish drama. Overplayed by an eye-rolling John Wood, this burned-out genius rips the delicate fabric of believability that the picture has woven, turns Coleman's character into an onlooker, and makes David's climactic confrontation with WOPR more silly than suspenseful...
Duvall, a gifted, risk-taking actor for 20 years (Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies), plays men whose rage seems about to explode from their guts. Always Duvall watches, looking for the tiniest tear in society's fabric. As the entrepreneur of Angelo My Love, he has found a dozen spirited gypsies tumbling out of that hole, victimized by their historical typecasting as scavengers and scoundrels...
...missiles in Europe independently of the military organizations of the countries involved? For good or ill, the futures of the NATO countries are inextricably intertwined. This is not true in only a military sense. The common interests of the Western democracies have multiplied since 1945. The economic and social fabric of the Atlantic alliance grows stronger each year. Any disruption of this unified situation can only be viewed in a negative light--and the remote possibility of a Soviet invasion through West Germany is the most negative...