Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secret Service would not confirm the account, but the White House apparently is equipped with secret sensors that can detect tiny amounts of radioactivity. The high technology has a good purpose. A nuclear device in this era of refined mischief could be as small as a fountain...
...Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace of mischief. "No one has so far." The Hungarian entrepreneur, however, has had no trouble calculating the commercial potential of his new gizmo, which is about to go on sale in the U.S. for $10. "All the people who liked the Cube will like Magic," predicts Rubik. "And there's a whole...
...score above the median, and since the crafty simian had exchanged his notes for mine, I was in for a tough time. Orgo lab second semester could have been called "Fun with Carcinogens." Every chemical I touched is even now burrowing deep inside my genes, doing who knows what mischief to my cellular structure...
...grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such as this." But if the city...
...violent; just look at Miami Vice. The U.S. is amazingly rich; look at Falcon Crest. The U.S. is zany--and rich and violent; look at Beverly Hills Cop. It is telling that Vanessa Redgrave defends Dynasty and Dallas on Trotskyist grounds. These portrayals of American ruling-class mischief, she says, are politically correct...