Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...translates into 'Gimme an instant hit' at the expense of every other value, like creativity." Instead of looking beyond Burbank for people with fresh ideas, the networks return to the same talent pool over and over. As Imagine's Grazer puts it, "Everyone is sucking up the same creative oxygen." And too often, when something different comes their way, they turn it down. Case in point: CBS, NBC and Fox passed on The Sopranos before it found a home on HBO, becoming the season...
...WHEN WE ARE FINALLY ESCORTED INTO THE LOBBY OF THE VIACOM BUILDING, IT TAKES A MOMENT FOR OUR bodies to adjust. Like infants experiencing our first encounter with gaseous oxygen, at first our lungs cannot process the warm, dry air. As we struggle to gain our bearings, we are directed to proceed upstairs. What precisely lies upstairs is as of yet unclear. All we can see is a two-story escalator ascending into the distance. We walk toward the foot of the escalator...
WHEN WE ARE FINALLY ESCORTED INTO THE LOBBY OF THE VIACOM BUILDING, IT TAKES A MOMENT FOR OUR bodies to adjust. Like infants experiencing our first encounter with gaseous oxygen, at first our lungs can-not process the warm, dry air. As we struggle to gain our bearings, we are directed to proceed upstairs. What precisely lies upstairs is as of yet unclear. All we can see is a two-story escalator ascending into the distance. We walk toward thee foot of the escalator...
...most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would need something with real propulsive oomph--a liquid like kerosene or liquid hydrogen, mixed with liquid oxygen to allow combustion to take place in the airless environment of space. Fill a missile with that kind of fuel, and you could retire black powder for good...
Science fiction is a fun-house mirror for a society warped by raging technological advance. Science fiction doesn't want or need to make much sense. It seeks astonishment, terror, wonder, ecstasy and dread. It is spectacular and mythic, an oxygen tent for society's daydreams. Science fiction cordially ignores many vital technologies, such as, say, garbage recycling. Recycling is hugely important, but it has zero science-fictional thrill...