Word: reels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Would that she could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into...
...There, in a foot restraint, Allen waited to grab the antenna on Westar with his right hand, while his left gripped the antenna support. Gardner cut loose, thrust over to the bay, stored his pack and tethered himself to the cargo bay. Meantime, Fisher gingerly began to reel in Allen and the satellite until Gardner could reach up to remove the stinger. He could then proceed directly to the remaining berthing steps. The only newly tricky part was in keeping the second satellite from banging into the first. "Stop it now, but stop it gently," Gardner cautioned. Answered Allen: "Believe...
...technical quality of the broadcasts remains high. WHRB still uses reel-to-reel tapes instead of the simpler but lower-quality carts most stations use, says President Stephen H. Shenefield '85. "People visit here and can't believe we don't use, these machines," he says of the carts. The station avoids another common proactive of cutting down on signal quality to increase range. In addition, the denizens of the Memorial Hall basement use high-quality turntable cartridges...
...year earlier. And the only mention of the Middle East, apart from Lebanon, came when Reagan included it with Central America and "the Pacific Basin" in a list of areas of vital concern to the U.S. One reason, no doubt, is that the candidates do not have time to reel off all the answers they have rehearsed to the questions that no one asks; they concentrate on making what they regard as their most essential points...
...remedy the problem, Anderson devised the "reel-up, reel-down" technique, whereby his instruments are hung over the side of the balloon and reeled up and down through the stratosphere as needed. The device not only allows his experiments to be repeated, says Anderson, but it permits numerous readings at various altitudes...