Word: gaseousness
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...very soul of compactness. Brevity is not enough. You need weight. Hence some sound bites qualify for greatness: F.D.R.'s "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" or Reagan's "Tear down this wall." Others--"a bridge to the 21st century"--are just short and gaseous...
...movie Contact is something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance...
MOVIES . . . CONTACT: "The movie 'CONTACT'," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "is something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance." The movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good -- up to a point -- on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens...
...that can read a volcano's emissions from a plane flying nearby or even a car driving past at a distance of as much as 20 miles. The instrument works by detecting changes in the infrared energy caused by different gases in the volcanic plume. Says Williams: "Volcanoes give gaseous signals of approaching eruptions. This gives us the lead time we need to get people educated and not terrorized...
...House. The presidential campaign had become a strange and drearily frustrating non-event. In a postideological age, the titanic and defining issues of foreign policy are gone, and the domestic issues involve either the mere mechanics of budget priorities (how much for police, how much for schools?) or the gaseous nebulas of "values...