Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...rate of 15%, or more than twice the pace of retailing in stores. Maxwell Sroge, a Colorado Springs-based consultant who monitors catalogue sales, expects them to reach $33 billion this year, compared with $29 billion in 1980. Consumers now can mail or telephone orders for a deluxe domestic robot ($17,500) complete with electronic pet ($650) from Neiman-Marcus, a porcelain unicorn that plays The Impossible Dream ($24.95) from World of Music Boxes or a life-size female torso made out of milk chocolate ($60) from KrÖn Chocolatier...
...test that was eliminated from the mission was a rehearsal for an emergency space walk, which would have been performed if automatic devices to close the four payload-bay doors failed to work, or if the robot arm had malfunctioned...