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That didn't last. A raunchier brand of action comedy co-opted the blaxploitation genre; Schwarzenegger and other supertough white dudes won the affections of the black audience. And still Hollywood would not make movies that scanned the spectrum of African-American life. The top black stars of the '80s, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, were segregated from many hero roles because they were seen only as inspired clowns. In buddy movies with white co- stars, they rarely got the girl -- any girl. They were Hollywood's best- paid second-class citizens...
Unknown in nature, such man-made compounds are becoming increasingly important. They have already been used to manufacture a group of catalysts-substances that stimulate or retard chemical reactions in which they themselves remain unaltered-used in the production of new supertough plastics, the drug L-dopa (for treating Parkinson's disease), low-lead fuels and other materials of industrial importance. The prize is especially gratifying to Wilkinson, who did most of his research while he was a junior faculty member at Harvard from 1950 to 1954. Because his senior colleagues were apparently unimpressed by his results, his contract...
Aviation experts are already conducting research into a host of other safety innovations. Among them are such devices as an explosive charge to blow fuel tanks clear of a crashed plane; resilient, supertough nylon fuel tanks that would not burst on impact; a jelly-consistency fuel that would smolder instead of explode; and fail-safe instrument systems that would permit entrusting difficult landings to the automatic pilot. In zero-zero visibility, jet pilots crack, their only problem after landing may then be to find their way to the terminal...
...fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...
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