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...sensitizing, or perhaps, in the case of Coma, an anesthetizing of the audience. No wonder audiences are bored with those wonderful Val Lewton films of the forties, where the terror is in what you don't see. Even Hitchcock's films are beginning to lose their punch...
...push of a button, the driver can get a readout on the amount of fuel in the tank, and the number of miles he can expect to go (at current speed) before a refill is necessary. Drivers of General Motors' 1978 Cadillac Seville will also be able to punch a button and find out the miles yet to go to a preset destination and the estimated arrival time. The ultimate auto will make the solid gold Cadillac look leaden. It will accommodate a pencil-size portable phone capable of reaching any number in the world in seconds, automatic braking that...
...predictable hazards of throwing earthly spheres into space. There has been some slippage in the earth orbit of the space agency's big Skylab space station, which was launched in 1973 and should not have begun declining in its orbit until 1983. It packs no nuclear punch, but no one would want to be near it if it falls...
...only serves to illustrate the growing feeling among those who enjoy good rock that modern music is taking a fast dive into the garbage can. Not only is Beethoven rolling over; he may walk out of his grave and give Johnny Rotten and his compatriots a deserved punch in the nose...
...search for the remains of the Russian satellite continued, much of the public fear over widespread radiation dangers dissipated. The Soviet nuclear package actually packed a punch equivalent to about 100,000 tons of TNT-a puny power in comparison with modern nuclear weapons. Yet it is also five times the explosive force dropped on Hiroshima. While a full explosion of the uranium 235 seemed technically impossible, the worst-case scenario of radiation damage was frightening. If Cosmos 954 had somehow survived re-entry and released all of its radiation in a city like New York, the death and disabling...