Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vivid by some neat anthropomorphism. The Disney creators of talking mice, ducks and crickets again break new ground by devising human-like computer programs, creatures who carry their intelligence--programming orders--on frisbees attached to their backs. They live in the computer system, itself conceptualized as an incredibly complicated maze of tunnels, valley and towers...
...setting is a mental sanitarium. The head office is guarded by a maximum-security chain-link fence suggesting a concentration camp; sheaves of yellowing files conjure up a strangulating bureaucratic maze. Roote (George Martin), the government official in command, is a slightly dotty ex-colonel given to gung-ho sloganizing, lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus...
...time the college reformed its governance was 10 years ago in the wake of the student takeover of University Hall. If this proposal passes, students may have to rest content until the next upheaval or the next decade. In the meantime, administrators could shuffle student concerns through a new maze of bureaucracy. Until the administration agrees to give students more of a voice where policy is made--whether in departmental committees, deans' offices or the Faculty Council--students cannot afford to ratify their own impotence...
...stations, in Atlanta and Dallas, to its Portsmouth base, but what really turned the electronic tide for Robertson was a satellite. CBN beat out its brethren by leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 2 satellite in April 1977, thus enlarging its video congregation by connecting with a maze of cable systems that now serve 14.5 million homes. Robertson predicts the total will reach 19 million by year...
During the late '70s the maze of regulations and Congressional worries about the way federal monies were being spent led to major audits of federally funded research projects...