Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advanced version is the Excalibur, already being tested, which boosts the X rays produced by a nuclear explosion. The idea is to use the X rays to power lasers, which would then be targeted at enemy missiles as they fly through space. Taylor argues that microwaves are a better bet for enhancement. Microwaves -- the same kind of electromagnetic emissions that cook TV dinners -- have a longer wavelength than X rays and can scramble electrical systems (hence the warnings to wearers of the early, unshielded heart pacemakers to stay away from some microwave ovens). Unlike X rays, microwaves can penetrate...
...last week a different picture of Reagan began to emerge. The new portrait depicts the President as a hands-on boss who thoroughly involved himself in the contra crusade. In this version, Reagan ordered his staff to keep the rebels' cause alive after Congress banned U.S. support in 1984 and 1985. He carefully monitored the contras' fortunes, asking questions about troop strength, supplies, battlefield activities. He welcomed contributions from one foreign leader and lobbied another head of state to expedite an arms shipment...
...Please hold, sir." While I waited the phone played a computerized version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to ease my wait. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Very soothing...
...Roger Vadim created And God Created Woman and created Brigitte Bardot. Now the French director has seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy that goes with...
...Herald even learned Rice's name. But Howard Simons, former managing editor of the Washington Post and now head of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, defends the Herald's actions: "If they'd waited a day, they wouldn't have known anything more, except for a polished version after the people had got their stories together...