Word: outer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn a sharp distinction between public and private occasions. The job of the poet, his work implies, is to be a messenger between outer and inner worlds, to specify and make memorable what everyone already knows or to give narrow personal experience the breadth of shared impressions. This dedication to communal speech is visible throughout New and Collected Poems, making the book a singular testament to civility...
...radar in conventional planes. Flaps, rudders, elevators and ailerons appear to have been replaced by computer controlled nozzles that guide the aircraft by directing the flow of the engine's exhaust. The engines themselves are nestled above the wings, shielding them from heat-seeking detectors on the ground. The outer skin and inner framework are cast in radar- absorbing carbon-epoxy composites. Other stealthy features might include nonreflective paint and a refrigeration system to cool and dissipate telltale exhaust fumes...
...work at the box office. The Star Wars trilogy was putting a high-tech spin on the old Disney legerdemain. So, brilliantly, were Steven Spielberg's films: Close Encounters of the Third Kind used When You Wish upon a Star as a theme, and E.T. was "Bambi from Outer Space...
...1980s `national security' is in itself an all-encompassing term too often construed as having to do only with foreign policy and defense matters. In reality, it must include virtually every facet of international activity, including foreign affairs, defense, intelligence, research, and development policy, outer space, [and] international economic and trade policy," former National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen wrote in a 1983 report...
While Jackson's large and varied outer circle of advisers is a racial rainbow, his four closest advisers -- at least for the moment -- are white, and three are Jewish. They include Jackson's campaign manager, Gerald Austin; his economics adviser, Carol O'Cleireacain; his policy adviser, Mark Steitz; and his all-purpose sounding board, Ann Lewis. The rationale for the cast of white faces is simple: Jackson's entourage, says a black adviser, "has done all the black politics they need...