Word: robotical
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...latest press conference, Reagan made fewer errors than usual. He glanced at notes (a crutch that must have bothered an actor good at remembering his lines). But as he says himself: "I have never claimed to be a whiz kid, a robot, a bionic adding machine or a walking encyclopedia...
...seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...
...photographers were Venera (for Venus) 13 and 14, the latest in a series of Soviet robot envoys to the earth's nearest planetary neighbor. Venera 13 lasted two hours and seven minutes on the Venusian griddle, while its twin worked about half as long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount...
...fiery prophecies of revolution, Reiffel's well-padded complacency and the workers' vignettes of woe create a momentum that overcomes the pragmatic 1980s assumption that "nothing is ever that simple." Director Josh Milton's fine sense of timing and placement melds the difficult mancuvers of lockstep group motion and robot-like dance rhythms to reinforce a visceral feeling of brewing social pressure, of the inevitable coming explosion...
...potentially interesting character who does ridiculous things. In Moreland there is an opportunity to explore difficult dilemmas such as how to maintain military pride without sacrificing individuality and humanity. But the makers of Taps haven't decided themselves what the answers are, or if any exist at all. Robot-like, Moreland plods on with his doomed crusade, and when the smoke clears, it's not at all clear who's to blame for this farcical shoot'em up: Bache, a few crazy kids, or society in general...