Word: langs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family (Mark Nelson), a gifted but ineffectual idealist (Megan Gallagher, in the only unconvincing performance) and the outwardly casual, inwardly intimidated son of a famous father (Hulce). Much the juiciest role, however, is the Ollie North-style commander, played with an infectious grin and a jaguar stalk by Stephen Lang. Even in these optimistic times, he makes the dark dangers facing any "defender" scarily real. W.A.H...
...other research centers around the world see much broader possibilities for minuscule machines. They envision armies of gnat-size robots exploring space, performing surgery inside the human body or possibly building skyscrapers one atom at a time. "Microelectronics is on the verge of a second revolution," says Jeffrey Lang, a professor of electromechanics at M.I.T. "We're still dreaming of applications...
Some of the best and brightest left the country. Thomas Mann left, and Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Paul Tillich, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder. Some of the less fortunate fell into the hands of Goring's police and ended up in a little village outside Munich where the Nazis had built their first concentration camp. It was called Dachau. This was not yet the era of the gas chambers but rather of the truncheon, not mass murder but the gradual silencing of all opposition. "They came first for the Communists...
...Viet Nam? Again. At this late date. In the case of Casualties of War, there can be only one answer: for further diagnostic tests on the national conscience. For the story it tells, based on an incident first reported in The New Yorker by Daniel Lang two decades ago, is too brutally horrific to contemplate unless some moral edification can be derived from it, some guide to the larger enigmas of human conduct...
...course, every party has its poopers. Parisians grumbled about draconian parking restrictions. Opposition leaders complained that the three-day affair was costly evidence of Mitterrand's "megalomania" (estimates range from $66 million to $280 million), moving Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang...