Word: foray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kermit. No Bert and Ernie. Sam the Nixonian eagle and Grover, with his perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular...
...recent years, MIT professors charge, Harvard has launched an attack on it much higher scale. In its latest foray into MIT, Harvard snapped up the department's brightest young star, Lawrence J. Summers, who will join the Faculty after a one-year stint on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors. "He was hired away at the last minute," complains MIT Department Chairman E. Cary Brown. "We were counting on him to fill a very serious need here...
...President's first political foray of the season. And for better or worse, it called attention to the degree to which his domestic policies, including his management of a troubled economy, could become the central issue of Campaign '82-if central issue there will...
...region, and will achieve it either by political means or by its own independent military power." And Sharon has made it clear that Israel intends to reply to any threat in its own way; i.e., a P.L.O. raid in the Bekaa Valley might touch off an Israeli foray into Beirut, Tunis or Tripoli...
Chemical's foray into bank-at-home personal computing, dubbed Pronto, was announced last week. This was the latest move by a growing number of banks to cash in on the popularity of personal computers. As prices for the machines have plunged and their use has spread, bankers have begun eyeing home computers as a huge new market and a way to cut costs and paperwork in the back office. New York's Citibank has an experimental program in 100 homes in Queens, while the First Bank System in Minneapolis has computers with 250 customers...