Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where the papers could not reach you and no TV or radio for miles? It can be done; there is life without journalism. Wild flowers, geese, that sort of life. As long as one remains stock-still, one feels no craving for the networks. But catch one inkling of motion elsewhere, and immediately the mind is overwhelmed with the desire to know all that is happening, in every alley and closet in the world. Such dependency may be a sign of weakness, but it also suggests that life is connected and continuous. The odd present tense the news employs-Reagan...
...presence of the 1,800-man U.S. Marine force in Lebanon. As for Shamir, he and Reagan will probably discuss the Administration's thoughts about "strategic cooperation" between the U.S. and Israel. They may also talk about ways of putting the long-moribund Middle East peace process in motion again, perhaps with the help of Egypt and Jordan. Reagan will want to discuss with both Gemayel and Shamir the unsettling announcement last week by Lebanese Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan that his government would "freeze" the agreement it had reached last...
Only Elvira escapes Scarface alive; every other character goes down in a hailstorm of bullets. It is this ferocity, plus the complementary fusillade of four-letter language (the commonest four-letter obscenity is, by conservative count, uttered 181 times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where...
...called payload specialists. On Spacelab's maiden voyage, they are Ulf Merbold, 42, a West German physicist whose specialty is the behavior of materials at low temperatures, and Byron Lichtenberg, 35, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T. and Brown University with a particular interest in solving the problem of motion sickness that has afflicted so many astronauts...
...ambulance carrying the unconscious body of Margaret M. Cimino '87 whizzed by. In almost slow motion, two red shirted Harvard students ran after her through the parking lot. Their hands were stained with blood, and, as they ran, some dripped on the ground and the parked cars...