Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when movies devoid of high-tech and horrifying gore and violence are few and far between, Alan Alda's most recent picture, Betsy's Wedding, gives emotion-starved moviegoers a refreshing two hours of simple entertainment. Not Academy Awardwinning entertainment, just plain old family entertainment. I saw this movie with my mother. It's that kind of movie...
That openness is yet to be reflected in textbooks, which have not been replaced. Modern dictionaries explaining high-tech and slang words are not available; geography teachers complain about a lack of up-to-date maps. "We learned about the working classes' victories over capitalism," says Annegrit Wernicke, 16. "But we hardly knew anything about Napoleon...
TOTAL RECALL. Someone has stolen Arnold Schwarzenegger's mind! No great loss: Arnold still has his body, which muscles its way through two planets and a death toll in the hundreds to deliver high-tech, high-octane entertainment. In every sense, the movie is bloody sensational...
...this end, there is plenty of high-tech destruction and gratuitous violence. But it is violence of a slightly different sort; darkly comical, Robocop II's well engineered mayhem bears more of a resemblence to the black satire of death orchestrated by the Joker in Batman than to the senseless slaughter in Total Recall or the recent series of Rambo movies...
...with unemployment already running at 9.3%, Israel is ill-prepared to find work for all the immigrants. In the sciences alone, some 60,000 Soviets are expected to arrive within the next three years. Israeli universities can make room for perhaps 120 of them. Even the country's high-tech firms cannot absorb so many. "We've got 2,000 resumes in desk drawers from top-notch Soviet scientists," says a spokesman for a Jerusalem research-and-development firm. "But we can hire only...