Word: strobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argo does, skimming just above the ocean floor like a giant sled. Designed to map deep-sea hills and gulleys, the craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically to the mother ship by a thick steel cable. When sonar patterns signal an interesting feature, the video cameras can be commanded to zoom in on the object. The images they pick...
Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott is a specialist in U.S.-Soviet relations and arms control. His analysis of the interview with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
...paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
...always been foreign policy. He has written four books on the subject (No More Vietnams was published this month) and maintains a network of high- level contacts. The appointment of a new Soviet leader was much on his mind last week when he met with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and Senior Editor Stephen Smith. Looking tanned and fit after a vacation in the Bahamas, the former President said he had recovered from a prolonged bout of shingles. In his first on-the-record interview since November 1984, Nixon discussed the pitfalls of summitry and assessed the challenges facing...
...excerpts were chosen by TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. The latest project required a special approach, Talbott says, "precisely because it does come from the world of espionage, where deception and illusion are commonplace. Those of us working on the project thought it important to verify the bona fides of the author and, as far as it was possible, his story." As State Department correspondent and diplomatic correspondent during the 1970s, Talbott had covered stories about defectors, agents and double agents--and the tricky business of telling them apart...