Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worth recalling that Truman's Secretary of Defense James Forrestal opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the coldest days of the cold war, partly because he feared that Israel and America's commitment to it would hamper the twin strategic tasks of keeping Joseph Stalin at bay and keeping the peace in the oilfields and tanker lanes. Truman overruled Forrestal-but for reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab...
Until the sudden failure, Voyager 2's performance was almost flawless. Picking up where its twin, Voyager 1, left off last November, it provided new insights into Saturn's turbulent weather. Banded with powerful jet streams, like those of neighboring Jupiter (which Voyager 2 surveyed in 1979), the planet has even greater winds-up to 1,100 m.p.h. just north of the equator. In Saturn's higher latitudes, Voyager 2's cameras spotted a storm system larger than all of Europe and Asia, as well as numerous smaller storms, some whirling clockwise, others counterclockwise...
Anna seems almost alarmingly controlled, unreachable-as modern as any Cosmo girl. But what about her Victorian twin? Is Sarah, as Irons describes her, "the breath of a new century"? Or is she simply mad-driven to psychosis by the conflicting pulls of passion and repression? "I hope by the end she establishes that she's probably not insane," muses Fowles. "Or if she is, it's a fruitful kind of insanity." Mad or just modern, it hardly matters, for Sarah is above all an actress. In one of the film's most powerful scenes, we find...
...this wafts like a siren song from the twin glass and green-roofed shopping pavilions that form the year-old Harborplace: two-story, block-long, translucent pleasure domes where visitors can be seen from outside swarming in rhythmic schools like the angelfish at the nearby National Aquarium in Baltimore, a dazzling, $21.3 million piscine habitat that was formally opened...
...chew on." Body Heat is full of meaty characters and pungent performances-Ted Danson as a tap-dancing prosecutor, J.A. Preston as a dogged detective, and especially Mickey Rourke as a savvy young ex-con who looks and acts as if he could be Ned's sleazier twin brother. Kathleen Turner's Matty mixes come-hither looks with a sultry, baritone voice. This is a creature of fire and ice, with no intermediate shadings of warmth or aloofness. Thanks largely to her presence, Body Heat is a film to be seen at a drive-in, on a heavy...