Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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terrence. My own view is that it's unlikely that we're going to find any magic formula that will permit us to escape from the box of nuclear deterrence...
This voice-controlled engine is one of the new applications in the rapidly emerging technology that allows machines, in a primitive fashion, to use human language. Dallas-based Texas Instruments, which pioneered low-cost talking computers with its Speak & Spell learning aid, last week unveiled Magic Wand, a machine that can read to children. It is disc-shaped like an LP record album. A youngster passes a wand attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods...
...befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system with images that bemuse and beguile...
...novelty item. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about a group of 48 previously unreleased Beatles performances, found in the BBC vaults and to be broadcast over the Memorial Day weekend on 350 stations, is their insistent presence. Old songs in the present tense, simple, lively and made of magic...
...theory. There is a lot of stuff to chew on and go "Oh Wow" about. The brain likes to read about itself and some of its exploits. How do you explain barbarism, empire-builders, the practice of burying the dead, the birth of religion? How did Magic Men get away with it? A lot of stuff you just assumed " was always there" has its evolution discussed here...