Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultra-high-frequency father of video art, Nam June Paik, is understandably proud of his latest brainchild for the electronic age. This week public television will air Bye Bye Kipling, a 90-minute avant-garde variety special, broadcast live from three countries. Intended as a high- resolution refutation of Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," the show will feature a sampler of art, music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata...
Apparently, students are soaking up the rays. But many are reluctant to admit their ultra-violet activities. The few who will talk about them usually say they only went to the salons to prepare their skin for the shock of a sunny spring break after a dreary Cambridge winter. Since these people did it "for a reason," they're not ashamed...
Metallic glass has the potential to eliminate heat loss in transformers that currently wastes 1.5 percent of our country's power, according to Professor of Physics David R. Nelson, while Physics Professor Bertrand I. Halperin stressed the application of ultra-small structures in semi-conductors...
...funeral, Republican Governor James G. Martin appointed Congressman James Broyhill to serve the last six months of the term. Broyhill, a 23-year House veteran, had just won a bitter primary campaign for the Senate nomination against former U.S. Ambassador to Rumania David Funderburk, a candidate of the ultra-right-wing National Congressional Club, which had previously backed East. North Carolina Republicans hope that Broyhill's incumbency, however brief, will boost him in his uphill campaign against the Democratic nominee, popular former Governor Terry Sanford, who retired in 1985 after 15 years as president of Duke University...
...twice elected to the presidency a marvelous pop creature who goads Congress with movie dialogue ("Go ahead; make my day!") and calls military uniforms "Pentagon wardrobe." The original make-my-day movie actor has been elected mayor of a town in California, while character actors from ultra-schlock TV shows (Love Boat, The Dukes of Hazzard) run for the House of Representatives (Iowa, Georgia...