Word: melts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Silkwood draws its power from its low-hayed approach to the story, the cast and crow rents the temptation to fabricate ridiculously tragic scenes of blatant corruption, Silkwood is no Chinn Syndrome, where Jane Fonda played an aggressive reporter investigating a neat melt-down at a nuclear reactor. Rather this film goes behind the scenes of life at a nuclear plant and subtly probes the intricacies concerning the operation and life of its employees. This film has no glamour, nor does it gloss over related event; the scene in which Silkwood's home is decontaminated for radiation poisoning is horrifying...
...basic mechanism of lasers is now familiar: they emit a concentrated stream of intense light powerful enough to melt metal. Experimental U.S. lasers have tracked and destroyed small missiles in flight; last May in California the Airborne Laser Lab was 5 for 5 firing at supersonic Sidewinders. But a device powerful and precise enough to be practical for nuclear defense cannot yet be built...
...that Holy Cross were a mockery team of snow, standing before the sun of fair Harvard, to melt itself away in water-drops! Good Crimson, great Crimson, and yet not greatly good, and if its ability be sterling yet in Division I-AA, let it command an upset hither straight, that it may show Harvard what pride it has since it is bankrupt of the Ivy lead...
...initial indication of such terrestrial turmoil came in 1975, when Mount Baker, a 10,750-ft. volcanic peak in northwestern Washington, began to puff and fume. Vented steam has continued to melt ice around the summit crater of the mountain, which is only 90 miles from Seattle. The Geological Survey says that rising magma in the mountain's cone may be stoking Mount Baker's internal fires. Magma is hot, melted rock from deep within the earth that fuels volcanoes and becomes visible as lava when it breaks through the crust...
...superiors, however, saw in the young officer qualities that did not leap from his 201 file. He had a grin that could melt the coldest commanding officer. He could write a mean memo, a talent then, as now, in short supply in the Army. He could take an abandoned field at Gettysburg, Pa., and turn it into a tank corps training camp with impressive speed and imagination, and without benefit of tanks. Douglas MacArthur picked Eisenhower in 1935 to help him build an army for the soon-to-be-independent Philippines. At the outbreak of World War II, General George...