Word: plummet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visiting Madrid late last March. Alexandrov originated the mathematical model for the nuclear winter theory, which holds that the smoke and dust hurled into the atmosphere by a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would block the sun's rays for weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce...
...movie accurately portrays the strange environs of scientific research, and Peter O'Toole is marvelous as a mildly comic, Einstein-like scientist. David Ogden Stiers of MASH fame sounds good without his aristocratic air as O'Toole's ruthless rival. But then the Jeremy Leven screenplay begins its long plummet in quality of dialogue, and the less dazzling supporting cast intrudes...
...million years or so, the theory holds, a rain of comets that lasts hundreds or thousands of centuries bombards the earth. The impact of some of the larger comets spews enough debris into the atmosphere to block the sun for months. As the skies darken, temperatures on the ground plummet and the majority of existing plant and animal species perish...
...years, as well as $74,000 in fines and forfeiture of all ill-gotten gains. Among them: a $200,000 yacht named Pipe Dreams that, prosecutors say, Edwards secretly bought for his son Stephen. Edwards conceded that he would have to resign if convicted. Said he: "I will plummet instantly from an enviable life to a miserable existence." And the good times will roll no more...
...profanely as ever, but now he adjourns to the disco after the second round. People begin to forget that he ever was a great tennis player. As pride stalled and greed rallied, Borg reappeared momentarily, still young and naive about how fast and far a delicate skill can plummet, only to find that he had lost...