Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every week New York magazine publishes five or six pages of personals, at $23 a line. The New York Review of Books publishes column after column of some of the most entertaining personals. Many of them are suffused with a soft-focus romanticism. Firelight plays over the fantasy. Everyone seems amazingly successful. The columns are populated by Ph.D.s. Sometimes one encounters a millionaire. Occasionally a satirical wit breaks the monotony: "I am DWM, wino, no teeth, smell bad, age 40--look 75. Live in good cardboard box in low- traffic alley. You are under 25, tall, sophisticated, beautiful, talented, financially...
...action ranges across North America, France and darkest Russia, none of it convincingly in focus. In New Hampshire, for instance, Author Hyde has the Soviet bad guys, who are driving a small runabout, stop off at a farm to pick up a cord of wood, a quantity that would founder anything short of a sizable truck. Soviet village scenes do not seem any more real. The book's most enduring enigma is why, having equipped his tale with the scaffolding of romance, Hyde keeps his reunited lovers separate for all but a few exceedingly decorous pages...
...accused the U.S. of mounting an anti-Soviet propaganda campaign. Noted TASS: "One gets the impression that instead of encouraging dialogue between our countries and creating a favorable atmosphere (for the summit), attempts are being made to raise obstacles." There is some merit to the Administration's desire to focus on fundamental issues rather than cosmetic agreements, but there are high risks as well. Too many harsh signals from Washington before November could convince the Soviets once and for all that they can never do business with Ronald Reagan. If that happens, the "agenda for the future," which Reagan wants...
...Dalkon Shield case may turn out to be the worst liability nightmare that a U.S. drugmaker has suffered. The focus of the furor is a nickel-size plastic device that looks like a shield with spikes around the edges. It was developed in 1968 by Hugh Davis, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University, and Irwin Lerner, an engineer. In 1970 they sold the rights to the invention to Robins, which agreed to pay royalties on future sales and $750,000 in cash. Like other intrauterine devices, the Dalkon Shield was designed to be inserted inside...
...tracking enemy satellites, the F-15 climbs several miles into the sky and fires the missile. The two-stage rocket then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary...