Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space warfare serve to undercut United Nations efforts--such as the recently-concluded Unispace '82 conference in Vienna--to set guidelines encouraging the exploration and peaceful use of outer space. Moreover, accepting the notion that America has a "space border" that must be defended like other borders will heighten cold war tensions and increase the possibility of a nuclear war. Worst of all, the resources spent militarizing space will be diverted from more practical and often desperately needed purposes. For instance, science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who predicted a satellite age as early as 1945, makes a good case...
...ready to sacrifice social feeling for a quicksilver cinematic intelligence. Moonlighting has its share of incongruous images (a flowerpot Nowak discovers in a toilet bowl) and gorgeous ones (a sweetly comic Degas overtone as one of the laborers reposes in a bathtub), but every shot is there to serve, heighten, reveal. The mundane and the surreal are one: Nowak sees images of his beloved, perhaps unfaithful wife Anna in a store window, on TV, naked in a cellar apartment. She is the vision-memory of all the hopes and fears he left behind, and brought with him to a strange...
...said the University plans "intensified recruiting" to combat a drop in the number of Black students who accept Harvard's offer of admission this year. He added that Harvard will heighten communications to allay student fears that Harvard has cut back on its financial aid offerings. "We're not waiting another year to do something," he said...
Says M.I.T. Sociology Professor Sherry Turkle, an expert on the psychological impact of computer games: "The training could go two ways. It could have a numbing effect, making nuclear war more linkable, or it could heighten the revulsion. The computer is confronting us with something we tend to repress: the brute tact that we are playing with the survival of the planet...
...heads, causing injury, or possibly even death. As the catcher, Juan also runs the risk of a shoulder dislocation. To pre vent such accidents, the brothers have made their bodies into pieces of interlocking machinery: they play soccer together for agility, lift weights for strength and box together to heighten their sensitivity to each other's movements. Miguel is small, 5 ft. 7 in., and slim, as fliers tend to be. He weighs only 132 Ibs. and has an almost invisible 26-in. waist. "I think he was born to fly," says Juan. "He is very thin...