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...rickety wooden bridge to view the damage: just 300 yds. away on Sinbad Island, bright orange flames and thick black smoke curled from a coastal dredging vessel that had been nearly cut in half by a direct hit. Fire engines raced to the scene and sprayed water and foam to prevent the flames from spreading to nearby military craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Road to Khorramshahr | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...hits. But no deafening, jolting crash occurs. On impact, the two cars swing away easily, for they are on casters and covered with polyurethane foam pads. The terrorist threat was not for real, but still there is genuine sweat on the driver's palms. This is part of the final exam given at the BSR Counter-Terrorist Driving School. It is the culmination of a four-day course held at Summit Point, W. Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. Instructor Bill Scott, 42, a Yale Ph.D. in geology and an ex-champion Formula Super Vee race-car driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Drive for Life | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...film is quite another matter. John Hurt, last seen giving caesarean birth to a malignant Alien, plays Merrick in a grotesquely authentic foam latex mask that leaves the actor almost unrecognizable. Yet he captures Merrick's humanity through his eyes and his gestures, the way he reflexively straightens his tie when a nurse enters the room, the way his voice rises and falls in the fruity arpeggios of a Covent Garden tenor. Treves described Merrick as having "the brain of a man, the fancies of a youth and the imagination of a child," and Hurt inhabits this sweet-souled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sweet Ogre | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...location, somewhere in the Atlantic, driving around bathyscapes in search of the ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom and then, glug, glug, glug, here she comes, surging to the surface where she sits, muddy and wet but otherwise unharmed...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: SINK THE TITANIC | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...create an incredibly safe, trusting environment. At home I use an eight foot by ten foot box with four inches of foam and soft music playing through speakers," he says. "The main question is, are you really doing exactly what you want to be doing every moment of your life? The sessions move through emotions, diet, wardrobe, home environment--you pick up every single thing in the house and ask 'Do I have a totally alive relation to you?'--job environment, and finally relationships. We don't replace old dogma with new dogma, we don't tell them...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

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