Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rumania's First Lady, but her true role is more akin to royal consort and heir apparent to her husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even...
...James Abrahamson of the Air Force, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, and Paul Nitze, the Administration's special adviser on arms control. Prominent scientific and strategic critics of the concept spoke as well. As Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who was instrumental in planning the gathering, noted, "Our object was to put technology in balance with politics. By lunch everyone was talking of radio-frequency quadrapoles and optical phase conjugation...
Daydreaming of freedom, one thinks of it as a clear blue light, like the frictionless intelligence of God. A sudden act: a lightning shot of electrons jumps from one still object to another and brings them both to life. Thought passes through the pure medium of freedom and accomplishes . . . creation...
Much of ILM's trickery is aimed at making these inanimate figures appear to move and act. In some cases, movement is simulated by stop-motion photography (the same technique that gave life to the original King Kong). The object is photographed one frame at a time and moved manually a tiny bit for each shot; when the film is projected at normal speed, the figure appears to be in action. Today, however, creatures can also be manipulated by computer- controlle d motors in an ILM innovation known as "go-motion," which produces more realistic movement...
...could be detonated on or near it. Says Shoemaker: "We have the technology to do that right now." But if the explosion simply broke the meteorite into large chunks, the danger would only be multiplied. "The more prudent solution," says Harris, "is to burrow a substantial charge into the object and blow it to smithereens...