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...abort a launch. As it happened, Resnik had been aboard the shuttle Discovery in June 1984 when, four seconds before the spacecraft's three main engines were to ignite for lift-off, the computer noted that the thrust from one of them was not at the proper level. The fuse was immediately pinched...
Unlike The Goonies, whose narrative is a rapid succession of hotfoots, Back to the Future has a long fuse that, halfway through, explodes into comic epiphany. Until then, the film is nicely propelled by the ingratiating Fox (from the NBC sitcom Family Ties) and some snappy then-and-now jokes (in 1985 the local theater is showing Orgy American Style, while in 1955 the attraction is a Ronald Reagan western). The choice of year is canny, for 1955 is close to the historical moment when television, rock 'n' roll and kids mounted their takeover of American culture...
...worth the price. Rather than reducing costs, warns Robert Jones, an Atlanta regional manager with the real estate firm of Cushman and Wakefield, smart technology actually increases them; for one thing, more sophisticated workers are required to maintain the buildings. "We're no longer talking about boilers and fuse boxes," says Jones. "Maintenance crews today have to know what 'optimum start times' and 'digital control devices' mean." Others criticize the lack of choice implicit in a smart building, which gets its technology from only a few suppliers...
...underestimates her man. Charley's salient virtue is loyalty, and once committed to her, he will stop at nothing short of marriage. Nor does she understand that he is not as dumb as Nicholson funnily, bravely makes him look. Charley's shrewdness is on a slow-burning fuse, but it is very much a part of his tenacious nature. He is bound to discover that the career in which Irene is making the greatest strides is not her visible one, but her hidden one: hit person for the Mob, with a sideline that includes cheating the Prizzis...
...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...