Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel gadgetry that made Homing Overlay successful is a sophisticated guidance system in the interceptor's warhead. It is able, thanks to a remarkable infrared sensor, to fix in space a target as small as a human being 1,000 miles away...
...500th anniversary of one of the most important happenings in human history: the arrival in America of the three Castilian caravels chartered by my ancestors, the Catholic monarchs, and commanded by Christopher Columbus. It is not so much a historic commemoration as a horizon on which together we must fix our sights. Nobody can deny that there are enormous and highly complex problems in Hispanic America. But there are new leaders today who are determined to tackle the most intractable of them. An example of an important achievement in this respect is the restoration of democratic institutions in Argentina, which...
Repair the Statue of Liberty [NATION, May 14]? Better to let it rot. If we fix it up, foreigners looking for a better life might actually believe that we intend to welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...
THESE PRECARIOUS BALANCES of cleverness and emotion, introspection and detail, work much better in the secondary plot. Seventeen-year-old Tibba Fix's portion overflows with the security of books and imaginary sex surrounding every bright, shy teenager. Her thoughts are full of real objects--food, pianos, imaginary lovers: even her memories of childhood are more poignant than her father's because she remembers real events: slamming doors, a policeman's arrival...
...first ring comes? Or how often you dial and there's no ring at all? Or you get a busy signal when you know the line isn't busy? Or that the phones themselves, which never used to break down, now break down? And nobody will fix them, unless you dismantle them and send them-by mail!-to some repair shop in West Nowhere. And the prices keep going up: 25? or even 30?, soon, for a local call from a booth...