Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Engineers have tried to fix the plumbing between the shuttle and its huge external tank, but the leaks keep turning up in different places. "My first reaction was frustration," said shuttle scientist Ed Weiler, "but my next thought was 'My God, I'm glad they stopped; some of my friends are aboard...
Darkman wants to be Batman. Its hero, a scientist (Liam Neeson) scarred in body and soul after being left for dead by venal thugs, is a cloaked crusader bent more on vengeance than on justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...
...like Batman, this comic-book movie is anything but comic; every plangent chord of Danny Elfman's splendid pop-Wagnerian score underlines the scientist's twisted nobility. Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene. And he knows how to give resonance to a tinny plot: by portraying a character so powerful and warped that he is urban America's perfect patron saint...
...world has lost a very distinguished scientist whose influence has been extraordinary," said Psychology Chair Jerome Kagan in a prepared statement. "His theoretical views were adopted by those in institutions working with retarded and autistic children and many educational establishments were profoundly influenced by his views on reward and punishment...
...later stages of American thinking about the gulf crisis have been swift in arriving. Across the U.S. the element of time began to take on profound importance. The window of $ popular support for the American mission in the gulf may prove to be narrow. Says Sheldon Kamenicki, a political scientist at the University of Southern California: "As recently as the late '60s, President Bush might have had a couple of years in which to operate. Now he has only a couple or three months...