Word: midair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IMAGINE TRYING TO SEIZE AN ELEPHANT THAT IS spinning overhead by grabbing onto three makeshift handholds the size of soup cans. Then consider performing this feat swaddled in a 255-lb. rubber suit, suspended in midair, with no net. It , was a comparable challenge that confronted the Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled...
...Roberts as Tinkerbell can be removed digitally -- and the background restored the same way -- with no evidence of tampering. The 2-in. pipe that supported Michael J. Fox's space-age skateboard in Back to the Future was erased to give the impression that Fox was zipping around in midair. For Memoirs of an Invisible Man, computers removed Chevy Chase from his clothes, then filled in the displaced background. "If there's a problem on the set," says Williams, "no problem...
...reality went in for such special effects, some grace might try to freeze in midair the bullets blazing around America -- might slide them back up the gun barrels they came from, and then might drop the guns, especially the guns American youths are using to kill each other, into someplace like the Mindanao Deep...
Rashid was arrested in Athens in 1988 on a tip from U.S. officials who had assiduously tracked him down and gathered detailed evidence against him. But when Washington failed in its attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. for the midair bombing over Hawaii that killed a 16-year-old Japanese boy and injured 15 other passengers, officials feared that Greece might simply let Rashid go or acquit him. Now Rashid's lawyer is insisting that the Palestinian might be paroled in as little as seven years -- or even acquitted on appeal...
...crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others who found two dead bodies at the crash site and others who claimed that they had buried the two pilots. The Vietnamese investigators concluded that Scharf and Massucci both died when their plane crashed into Suoi Pai Mountain...