Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor men and poor women now had marketable skills without need of an education. The American dream became a reality as jobs were at last truly available for anyone out of puberty. All of America was happy, except for certain immoral businessmen, such as the Cabbage Patch Doll manufacturers, who were indicted for selling counterfeit babies...
...international crises go, it would be hard to find a more mundane conflict than one about oil-drilling rights in a disputed patch of the Aegean Sea. Yet last week Greece and Turkey came close to blows over just that argument. Athens ordered its military forces on full alert and threatened to forcibly prevent the Turkish research vessel Sismik 1, with an escort of two warships, from conducting petroleum explorations in waters near the Greek islands of Lesbos, Lemnos and Samothrace...
Rounding up the financing is half the battle, but independents are now finding many more sources. Filmmakers can often patch together their financing from advance sales to videocassette distributors, cable-TV channels and foreign exhibitors. Thus part of the procedure for upstart filmmakers is to hit the road with sample reels of their movies-in-progress, seeking to find buyers at film festivals and industry conventions all over the world. One independent, John Sayles, director of the 1984 hit The Brother from Another Planet, finances his own movies by grinding out screenplays like The Clan of the Cave Bear...
...archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly on a patch of light that seemed to have broken away from the band...
...that moment, in the distant patch -- actually a small galaxy now known as the Large Magellanic Cloud -- a supergiant star glowed fiercely, showing no outward signs of its impending doom. Suddenly, in a cataclysmic blast, it exploded, brightening until it outshone a hundred million stars the size of the sun. In every direction the intense light, traveling at 186,282 miles per second, radiated out into the universe, some of it heading toward a minor planet orbiting an average star in the neighboring and much larger Milky Way galaxy...