Word: steering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the additional resources promised by his new boss, Manning hopes to beef up the Atlantic's coverage of science, business and law. Zuckerman promises to steer clear of editorial matters, but even Manning admits: "He's a very active, aggressive guy. I expect we'll be on the phone with...
FIZDALE: We practically wrote a book on Mallarmé! It's in the drawer. GOLD: We wrote 50 pages on Revue Blanche before we realized that it wasn't our subject. The problem was to marry cultural history and biography. It is difficult to steer a clear course between interpretation and fact. And it should not be 900 pages long...
...speeds increase, the "aperture" (the correct angle of approach into the turns) decreases and drivers of the two-and four-man sleds must steer onto the proper line within a fraction of a second or risk a crash. In one turn, dubbed "Shady," the sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...
John Paul's visit to the Philippines will serve as the rope for a church-government tugof war. Marcos will try to reap maximum exposure. The church under Sin's direction will try to steer the Vatican away from such exploitation and use the visit to close ranks among its own members. If Marcos oversteps his bounds, he may trigger a more severe church reaction. Several clergy fear the Marcos's may ask the Pope to conduct their daughter's wedding ceremony. One of Sin's closest advisers suggested that the Pope may visit political detainees to make a definitive...
Ironically, almost anyone who runs to see Being There or Electric Horseman suffers from the video/slick malaise that both these films attempt to ridicule: the need to replace people with images. Both films finger TV as the villain behind a plot to steer Americans toward artificial lives, to keep them from the wonder of natural beauty. Unfortunately, each film exaggerates TV's ill-effects to hammer home its message...