Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confused? Screenwriters Pierson and Rubel hope you'll be, at least at first. They want you to be seeing double before you've settled in your seat. Fanciers of '30s screwball comedy may chafe at this film's substitution of efficiency | for energy, of speed for style; they may yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself...
...benefits of hydrogen have not been lost on one group of U.S. researchers. Engineers working on the proposed National Aerospace Plane say that hydrogen is the only combustible that ignites fast enough to boost the craft to orbital velocity, roughly 25 times the speed of sound. The frigid fuel could also be used in a cooling system to keep the plane from burning up during its fiery re-entry into the atmosphere. Test flights are scheduled...
...wide and 12 1/2 ft. high, the Fallbrook ramp is a commanding curve of wood built last summer by Tobin and his father. It has turned into a challenging arena where amateurs like Tobin can mix it up with seasoned veterans, all of them working up thrombosis- teasing speed as they turn the course and leave the ground, grabbing glorious...
There are now an estimated 20 million riders hitting the decks. Skateboarders speed and rumble all around the Picasso sculpture in downtown Chicago. They come from as far away as Scotland to maneuver Milwaukee's Turf Skateboard Park. Georgia's Savannah Slamma is an annual springtime ritual for boarders to show their stuff. Says Scott Oster, 18, a pro skater out of Los Angeles: "Kids are ripping all over...
...cameras are full of advanced engineering. Like many popular "point- and-click" models, each boasts functions that used to require manual operation but are now automatic: exposure control, focus, flash, loading, winding and film-speed setting. To these have been added some new twists, including infrared beams for focusing in the dark, automatic exposure compensation for subjects that are lit from behind, and a built-in zoom lens for wide-angle and telephoto shots with a flash unit smart enough to narrow or widen its beams accordingly. The zoom lens of the Chinon Genesis is hand operated; in the Yashica...