Word: rocketing
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...play progresses, the actors are able to get a better hold on the rhythms of the dialogue. The words rocket form person to person as the characters desperately struggle to be heard and to fend off silence. Mamet's dialogue is like a spell, when it works right One is hypnotized, and can't help but hear what he wants emphasized. The characters babble on in a Beckett-like fashion about whatever comes to mind--an old photograph, a torn blanket, an impending camping trip with John and his absent father. As they ramble along, certain phrases stick...
China officially abandoned its bid for the huge Asian satellite TV market today when a rocket carrying a TV satellite blew up 65 seconds after lift-off. The destroyed U.S.-made satellite, which would have provided television, telephone and digital telecommunications for Asia and parts of eastern Europe, northern Africa and Australia, was the latest -- and apparently the last -- disaster to strike the Chinese commercial space agency...
...countries and the U.S. scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian Supreme Defense Command in Oslo after the Interfax report. Spokesmen for NATO, several European countries and President Clinton said they were looking into the matter. When...
...hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails. Yet at the end of December he did it. Forgetting the cardinal rule that infantry precedes armor to scour buildings for lurking enemy squads, Russian tanks and personnel carriers advanced straight into the urban canyons of the Chechen capital, and scores were blown away...
Russian troops, pressing further into Grozny with their latest wave of artillery and rocket attacks, today came within yards of seizing the symbolic presidential palace in the Chechen capital. Chechen rebels have pressed the defense of the city even though their president on Wednesday publicly admitted they were outmatched militarily. Moscow news reports said Russian forces now occupy the Chechen government headquarters, a "key target" across the street from the palace. TIME correspondent Ann Simmons, reporting from Moscow, says many Russian officials believe the inevitable fall of Grozny will merely spark a more fragmented guerrilla war as rebels...