Word: meteoric
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...ought to feel as if we knew considerably more about the Soviet Union after these 28 months. Certainly, we try hard enough to know. Before Konstantin Chernenko's death, Gorbachev was already being tracked like a meteor: Margaret Thatcher likes what she saw of him; he has a lovely wife and a grandchild; did you hear the delightful joke he made about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have...
...critics soon acknowledged that they too would probably have headed along the road in any circumstance short of pitched battle and that men with cameras would take the utmost risks to get close to the action. Said Miami Herald Photographer Murry Sill: "It is like being in a meteor shower-you stand in it and gaze up in awe and try to stay out of its way." Added CBS Correspondent George Natanson: "If you do not want to take chances, you go into public relations...
First, a male caller said that a meteor was about to-hit Cambridge. "Really," he added, "I'm at Hilles Observatory," Within seconds, a second caller said, "I am the meteor. I'm going to destroy Harvard." Next, the same voice called and said, "This is Perry White, Where's Olson...
...gather the "hot" material. Meanwhile, Soviet ground controllers were radioing a flood of signals to the errant craft, which is tumbling wildly through space at an altitude of about 150 miles, in an effort to control it. Unless they succeed, Pentagon sources said, Cosmos 1402 will make a fiery, meteor-like re-entry into the atmosphere before month's end, possibly around...
...Heavy, man, heavy." All the fantasies in this animated anthology concern a glowing green meteor that rolls around heaven all day, bringing troubles to all who touch it. These are variously comic, terrifying and erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen...