Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winds of conservatism have been blowing strong during the past two years--too strong for most folks aboard the good ship Liberal. Following the captain's orders, the servile minions of the left are struggling to adjust their vessel's sails for an about-face. The crew, upset, but believing that they can no longer stay the course, are hastily climbing the masts and adjusting the rudder to save their ship...
...School is simply following the winds of national change for fear of irrelevance. Hopefully, that fear will not cause it to lose its ordinary reasonableness for some temporary gain in popularity. The inclusion of perspectives necessary to open debate is one thing. But with the direction the good ship Liberal is now traveling, it very well may veer so far off course that it will not be able to find its proper and good destination...
...sources said a large number of the 40 to 45 museum attendants may vote instead to join HUCTW, for the purpose of gaining member- ship in a much larger group, according to other guards and HUCTW officials. With about 3,500 members, HUCTW is the University's largest union...
...Cameron won't yield when it comes to getting his vision on the screen. At the moment he is several hundred miles south of Hollywood, filming at the Mexican beach town of Rosarito on a 40-acre site dominated by a massive 750-ft.-long re-creation of the ship--a hulking shell built almost to scale. It rests in a 17 million-gal. tank, and will be lowered into the water by degrees. Tonight's shoot takes place on the poop deck, which can be tilted as much as 90[degrees] by hydraulic lifts. This...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is building up a head of righteous steam about the Borg, the evil race that once enslaved Picard and has now infested the Starship Enterprise with plans to do something very naughty to Planet Earth. Well, the Captain will not abandon ship. He will face up to the Borg, he says. "And I will make them pay for what they've done." As Patrick Stewart delivers this line with a majestic ferocity worthy of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, the audience gapes in awe at a special effect more imposing than any ILM digital doodle. Here...