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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense attorney Judd Carhart completed his cross-examination of Long Ngo, questioning his connection with the communist government of Vietnam. In the second day of testimony before the Massachusetts Superior Court Long Ngo testified that while he supported some Vietnamese policies, he was not a supporter of the government...

Author: By Dean R. Madden, | Title: Prosecution Rests in Trial Of Alleged Bomb-Thrower | 5/12/1982 | See Source »

...more mature and authoritative; his moon face is cratered with character. In 1979, when Mad Max was released, George Miller was a 34-year-old M.D. who had edited his first feature on a kitchen table. Max surprised with its cinematic canniness, but Warrior astounds as a sequel superior in every respect. Miller suggests violence; he does not exploit it. He throws the viewer off-balance by mixing the ricochet rhythms of his chase scenes with tableaux of Walpurgisnacht grandeur: Wez's rain dance, a fiery crucifixion, a vision of Max flying supine over the outback. Miller keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apocalypse... Pow! | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...woman testified yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court that she had chosen Hussain's photograph from a group of nine as the man who allegedly raped her and later identified him positively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hussain Lawyer Calls Witness 'Spacey', Unstable | 5/4/1982 | See Source »

...revived by Reagan, the B-1 would cost $200 million a plane: at that price, which is certain to rise, the United States could afford only 100 of them. Carter rightly cancelled the planes because it was unlikely to be capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses and because the superior Advanced Technology Bomber or "Stealth" plane, would be available to replace the B-52 fleet early enough so that an interim bomber the B-1 would be unnecessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Some Trimming | 5/4/1982 | See Source »

...factory robot that crushed a man to death in Japan last year did little to silence the talk that machines are a threat to human preeminence. That talk has been alive ever since people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler's satire Erewhon (1872), the citizens establish a museum of old machines in which they at once deposit and abandon their mechanical inventions, which they believed would swallow up their souls. When machines possess artificial intelligence, like computers, the human fear of being overtaken seems both more urgent and more complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Mind in the Machine | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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