Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gentlemen might prefer blondes, but ladies ought to love The Real Blonde,for this is a woman's movie. In the midst of its other socially astute criticism, the film offers up a vehement attack on a woman's worst enemy: the uninvited comment...
...that reason, Earth's defenders, if they have the luxury of time, would prefer to send a robot craft to rendezvous with a threatening asteroid and determine its composition and mechanical strength before dispatching a nuke to the scene. Physicist Edward Teller suggests that this is what we should do, just for practice, when XF11 passes far from Earth two years from now. Other defensive plans being bandied about at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national labs involve more exotic devices, such as neutron bombs or netlike arrays of interconnected tungsten balls...
...what "the American people" believe, you would be well advised to hit the mute button. As it turns out, a detailed explanation of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky seems to be the last thing "the American people" are demanding from President Clinton. At least for now, they seem to prefer viewing him as someone who is good at his job despite some personal flaws--more or less what people used to think about Fatty Arbuckle before matters got out of hand...
...directors prefer to look on the bright side...
Radio, it seems, hasn't died; it just faded away for a bit. And for those of us who prefer radio's beauty in creating adventures in the mind's eye, its latest resurgence has come none too soon...