Word: swoopingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relax. Just press the play button, then settle back in the Barcalounger to watch the episode of Cheers that you missed last Thursday because of the lasagna dinner at your mother-in-law's. No more guilt or anxiety. No video SWAT team is going to swoop down on your living room, disconnect your VCR, and confiscate the collection of I Love Lucy videotapes that you've been recording for a rainy day. It's all legal...
...Learning." "Fighting Each Other." and so forth--offers director Terry Jones the opportunity to set up classic spoof shots from Death pacing the beach to the omnipresent British boys' schoolroom. And it enables crazed animator Terry Gilliam to create some of the wackiest sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie's structure, crisp at first, ends up as a loose...
...relatively slow A-10 Thunderbolt is a "close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...
...first Shakespearean role after 46 years of acting, Anne Baxter, 59 (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve), managed in one falling swoop to live up to two of the stage's hoariest bywords: "Break a leg" and "The show must go on." At the opening of Stratford, Conn.'s American Shakespeare Theater production of Hamlet, Baxter, playing Queen Gertrude to Christopher Walken's Hamlet, was maneuvering herself and her 20-lb. dress down a darkened backstage staircase when she tumbled, breaking her foot and spraining her ankle. Baxter then made it through the second half...
...months or even years, and to perform a greater variety of functions. The U.S. currently has at least two photographic systems orbiting over the South Atlantic, the twelve-ton Big Bird and the newer KH-11. The systems are more sophisticated than the Soviet satellites. Big Bird can swoop from as high as 170 miles (for wide-angle views) to as low as 100 miles (for close-up shots). The KH-11 records images in digital form, rather than on film, and can beam pictures to ground stations around the globe for instant...