Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of California at Santa Cruz, most of the experts agreed that the starbursts, at least those emitting X rays, are distant thermonuclear explosions. In effect, nature is setting off its own H-bombs. University of California Astrophysicist Stanford Woosley, the conference chairman, said: "It is as if an object 100,000 times brighter than the sun were there one second and gone the next...
...cube) that began moving slowly toward them. When it seemed about to hit them, they showed what psychologists call "a strong avoidance-reaction pattern." They turned aside and squirmed and tried to avoid being struck, though they had no previous experience that would make them think that the approaching object would hit them. When such a cube or its shadow approached the babies on an angled path that would miss them, however, the babies followed its motion with their eyes but showed no sign of anxiety. "The consummate skill of these infants in predicting the path of the moving object...
...reasons of conscience. Some of those who fail to register may do no because they disapprove of war of conscription and feel that they should not cooperate in any fashion. Others who are not required to register may refuse to file the necessary compliance forms because they object that registration laws apply only to men of because they consider such laws unconstitutional or unjust. If Harvard agreed to pay the bill, students might refuse federal aid on a variety of other grounds, such as a belief that government grants are the tainted fruit of an unjust system of taxation...
Japan have helped to keep the sword sheathed. The 1942 Conciliation of Personal Affairs Act, for instance, outlines the philosophy in language that would irritate most American jurists. The main object, it states, lies in reaching a solution "based upon sound morals and with a warm heart." Such beliefs have been combined with borrowings from both the German and French legal systems. Like the European models, Japan's civil law puts less stress on judicial precedent than there is in the U.S., and it is used less frequently to resolve disputes and create rules of conduct...
Dustin Hoffman was a raw ingenue in Tootsie. Though only 33, Bando is already a master onnagata, a man who plays female roles in the centuries-old art of Kabuki. So apposite are his opposite-sex portrayals that he is the object of study by aspiring actresses and real-life geishas seeking to refine their feminine ways. "To act as an onnagata, "he says, "is to try to create an ideal; what I as a man would consider to be the ideal woman." Bando has also done non-Kabuki work, including heralded performances as Lady Macbeth and Desdemona...