Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swimming and track. By recording the comic pratfalls of riders and weight lifters, the poignant stumbles of pentathlon runners in the home stretch, it has shown that sports are not as easy as the best athletes make them look. With the utter clarity of its new technique, super-slow-motion, it may revolutionize coverage of some swift-paced sports...
...these days, of the entire National Theater-is Designer John Gunter. His garden and woodland sets provide the perfect trysting place for sobriety and anarchy, and the majestic train engine he sends chugging toward the audience at play's end is more effective than any of the loco motion in Starlight Express...
...Mexico City could be solved: overpopulation could be checked, even if harshly, as is being attempted in China; air pollution could be reduced, as in California; government could be decentralized, as in West Germany. But as T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Between the idea/ And the reality,/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow." In Mexico City, there is the shadow of ideology, both religious and secular, the shadow of corruption, the shadow of inertia-and always the problems growing faster than the solutions...
...stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...
Reversing the usual course, he has already had a major acting role in a motion picture, portraying a persecuted black military cadet in The Lords of Discipline. According to Manager-To-Be Shelly Finkel, a rock-music producer, Breland's future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they...