Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dershowitz defended a JDL member who was on trial for manufacturing a bomb which was planted in front of Columbia Pictures in New York. The bomb was placed in protest of cultural exchanges between the motion picture company and the Soviet Union and killed one person. The man was acquitted...
...There is Steven the Strong: he godfathers Spielberg-style films that soar (Back to the Future) more often than they flop (Young Sherlock Holmes). But from the geriatric elite of Hollywood, Spielberg got no respect--no Oscars, that is. So here comes Steven the Nice, with his first "respectable" motion picture, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. It bears the same relation to his more personal films that The 1986 Alice Walker Calendar, now on sale in bookstores, bears to the powerful fable that made her famous: a lavishly illustrated, well-intended, self-inflicted...
Poggio and his student proteges at MIT's artificial intelligence (A.I.) lab are in the process of building a machine which may someday be able to perform all the functions of a human eye: detecting the position, motion, shape and texture of almost any object...
Police officers voted 24-14-3 in late October in favor of a "no confidence" motion against Johnson, charging that he doesn't "go to bat" for officers and has consistently failed to resolve labor disputes within the department...
...filler piece. Richard's Cork Leg is a short play, but a more conventional stopgap than Beckett's artificial attachment might have been found for the Mainstage. Play uses a mere 10 square feet of the vast stage for 30 minutes. During this time, the only action is the motion of a followspot which reveals three actors mysteriously entombed in urns. For no apparent reason, they address the light as if it were in the process of tormenting them. Although the scenario is funny and somewhat chilling the first time through, our interest soon truns to boredom as the dialogue...