Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomers then switched from infrared to radio observations, using the twelve-meter radio telescope atop Kitt Peak, Ariz. Reason: infrared radiation gives information on the cloud's overall temperature, but radio waves carry more detailed data on the motion within. Interstellar clouds are made up of dozens of different types of molecules, and each emits radio waves of a specific frequency when heated or otherwise "excited." By tuning their telescope to the right frequency, astronomers monitor the behavior of different molecules and consequently learn more about conditions within the cloud...
...perceptible easing of hostilities between the sister cities has helped dispel the East Berlin reputation for gloominess. The process of normalization was set in motion in the early 1980s by Richard von Weizsacker, who was then West Berlin's mayor and is today West Germany's Federal President. Von Weizsacker became the first West Berlin mayor to meet with Erich Honecker, East Germany's Communist Party leader. Small signs of cooperation began to emerge on areas of mutual concern like waste disposal and pollution. Although the almost daily contacts are still conducted on an unofficial basis, the numbing silence...
Oddly enough, it is this very flaw that enhances the credibility of Red Storm Rising. World War III, by most postulates, is not likely to involve a grand Tolstoyan sweep of personal valor. Arsenals and tactics might indeed be set in motion by the frailties of flesh-and-blood players, but once launched the lethal machines would take on a life of their own--almost like characters in a novel. That possibility, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth...
.../MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!). The complaint was directed at cable services that scramble their satellite-beamed signals so owners of home dishes can see programs only by buying a decoder and paying a monthly fee. The daring prank captured the nation's fancy but set in motion a high-tech manhunt. Last week, after a three-month investigation, Captain Midnight was unmasked...
...Durang's Titanic, a woman who dates a bisexual analysand in Beyond Therapy. Together they wrote and performed Das Lusitania Songspiel, a deliciously rancid Brecht-meets-Broadway parody, and Naked Lunch, a fake interview with Voracious Starlet Sigourney Weaver that, in expanded form, may soon be a major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster." Of their paldom, Weaver says, "We have so much fun ( together. Our friendship is in a class all by itself. It's the icing on the cake of life...