Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convention floor was teeming with local-station crews searching for the hometown angle and conveying a bit of the bustle to the folks back in Sioux Falls or Sacramento. Many of them did so with the help of independent services like Conus Communications and Potomac Communications, which provided work space, technical facilities and satellite time at a typical cost of between $4,000 and $8,000 for the week. "Seldom," said CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, "have so many with so much covered so little...
...struggled to make sense of the shock of first seeing Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. There is, however, the marvelous 1909 Harbor in Normandy -- a seascape of vectors, in which hulls, spars, water and sky are made of the same brown-and-blue prismatic substance, buckling in shallow space...
...earthbound machine can fully duplicate the dives or turns of a plane in flight. But it turns out that a person does not need to be flying through space to feel as if he were. The human body responds not so much to motion as to acceleration, what the experts call "onset cues." By rapidly extending or retracting its hydraulic legs, a simulator can effectively create the sensation of a sudden pitch...
Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based Showscan opened a 36-seat space-flight simulator at Futuroscope, a high-tech theme park in Poitiers, France. Universal Studios Tour in Universal City, Calif., is working on a time-travel simulation, based on the movie Back to the Future, that is scheduled to open next summer. By 1990 Texas-based Six Flags plans to install a Dynamic Motion Theater at its Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey. It will feature a series of changing attractions that may include airplane dogfights and car chases. Meanwhile, the folks at Disney are putting the finishing...
...altered states fell to Sirlin, whose credits include, in addition to opera, Madonna's 1987 "Who's That Girl" tour. The Viennese venue was striking: a section of Hangar No. 3 at Schwechat International Airport. "We looked at a couple of beer halls, but we needed a bigger space," says Sirlin. "Then someone said there was plenty of space at the airport...