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...halo" or "doughnut," representing an area that has a diameter of five miles. The aim of the controllers is to "keep green" between the doughnuts. Whenever two circles begin to intersect, indicating that two planes have violated the horizontal separation standard of five miles, an alarm sounds, the doughnuts flash and a teletype clacks out the incriminating data. The controller must file a report on the incident, as must the pilot if he is suspected of being at fault. Anyone found responsible can be suspended from duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Control: Be Careful Out There | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Children will need help programming the Omnibot to perform some of its more exotic functions (such as answering the door or serving morning o.j. in bed at a preselected time), but the remote control is easy to operate after a minute's tutorial. Omnibot will raise its right arm, flash its eyes, open its hand, scuttle across the floor, make sharp turns, all at the press of a button or two. It will even speak with the child's taped voice and could conceivably serve as a referee for all the games that boil down to . . . blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...relive an affair with her old beau Doc Porter (nicely played by Lange's real beau Sam Shepard). Sissy Spacek is Babe, under arrest for the attempted murder of her husband, who had discovered her frolicking with a black teenager. Spacek comes off best, perhaps because she gets to flash her radiant smile after a plethora of roles that forced her to bear down and save the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once a Comedy, Now an Elegy Crimes of the Heart | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Even the KDLK radio announcers covering the Duluth games got into the act. "Harvard scores quietly, not a lot of flash and dazzle," they said. "But they just bring it down and keep doing it to you, and doing it to you, and you just can't stop them...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: MacDonald Mania Mauls McCormack | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

...surprising that at the twilight of his life, this introspective artist should imagine the last flash of the last night of everybody's life -- the end of the world -- on film. The Sacrifice comprises 24 hours in the lives of eight people at a secluded summer house. The upstairs quartet is Alexander (Josephson), a former actor who now teaches aesthetics; his English wife (Susan Fleetwood); a grown daughter (Filippa Franzen); and an adored son called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: End-of-the- World Blues the Sacrifice | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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