Word: laser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple and heartfelt...
...denies Caltech's enviable record or doubts that it will achieve even more. This week Caltech scientists will announce the completion of a DNA sequenator, an instrument that uses a laser beam and colored dyes to analyze rapidly the structure of DNA molecules. And even while major astronomical discoveries are still being made with Caltech's 200-in. Hale Telescope, the school has joined with the University of California in building on Hawaii's Mauna Kea a 394-in. optical scope, the world's biggest, which will enable astronomers to see 12 billion light-years into space...
...shield. Yet a key problem of SDI from its inception has been the weight and quantity of equipment that would have to be put into space. The hardware would vary enormously according to what types of weapons were selected for deployment. It makes a big difference, for example, whether laser beams are generated by millions of pounds of chemicals aboard satellites or produced on earth and bounced off mirrors in space...
...April 26. Money from the benefit, known as Account No. 904, after the special Soviet fund that received the donations, will help provide clothing, household goods and temporary shelter for the 92,000 people evacuated from Ukrainian towns near the dangerously radioactive plant. Last week's event featured laser beams, smoke machines, a henna-haired singer named Alla Pugachova and bands with names like Autograph, Kruiz and Bravo...
...Mathewson (played by John Lithgow in his best slow-burn style) is intent on tinkering with Paul's newly separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser. The physicist has underestimated Paul, who is cannily played not as a weirdo science nerd but as a youth who likes to keep his brainpower to himself out of normal adolescent secretiveness...