Word: motions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...film is a barrage of color and motion, consisting mainly of animation except the initial scene's live photography, filmed in the Cambridge Common...
...peace process set in motion by the Guatemala accord has already yielded some results in Nicaragua. In a succession of gestures that the Reagan Administration has called "cosmetic," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra invited three exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily La Prensa, lifted the ban on Radio Catolica and proclaimed unilateral cease-fires in four remote war zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure...
...eventually proved accurate, if only in hindsight, was a tribute to the powers of computer climate models -- and a demonstration of their shortcomings. The models attempt to reduce the earth's climate to a set of grids and numbers, then manipulate the numbers based on the physical laws of motion and thermodynamics. The sheer number of calculations involved is mind-boggling. A three-dimensional model, for example, requires more than 500 billion computations to simulate the world's climate over one year...
...what the people want." So people attending a Chuck Berry concert will hear the '50s jukebox blowin' the familiar fuses. Those who see Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll will find a musician who charms and exasperates. Those who read The Autobiography will have a great time inside the perpetual-motion mind of rock's prime performer. The devil is alive and well. And onstage or on the page, he still makes motorvating music...
Thernstrom received 15 percent royalities and an advance of $367,500 for world publishing rights with bonuses if the book is made into a motion picture or television show, The New York Times reported...