Word: warp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...converted by the evident attractiveness of a phenomenon that wavers between non sequitur and epiphany--epitaph?--for our times, you may find the "Time Warp" of socially redeeming value. Or maybe the ushers will scare you. Or--just possibly--there is no hope at all for you and you will end up like the student who, when asked what she thought of Rocky Horror, replied: 'Something that should be seen. Once...
This, apparently, is what a time warp looks like if you happen to come across it in the middle of the Pacific. When the ship finally emerges from the relativistic tunnel, the date is Dec. 6, 1941-Pearl Harbor eve. Once the captain (Kirk Douglas) and his mates on the bridge (Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, et al.) get the mystery all sorted out, the Nimitz, in its full nuclear glory, finds itself in a position to intervene in history. Should it try to face down the entire Japanese armada steaming toward its rendezvous with infamy...
Johana Demetrakas spent four years filming the making of the "Dinner Party," and her 90-minute movie, "Right Out of History" shows in conjunction with the exhibit. "The film is like a time-warp," Demetrakas said. "It captures people in the twentieth century as they are unearthing history that goes back 4,000 years, bringing back women of the past through women and men who are making the piece...
...saying, Carter angrily halts grain sales and postpones SALT in a series of retaliations against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan It was as though a time warp had plunged the world back into an earlier and more dangerous era. Soviet divisions had swarmed across the border of a neighboring country and turned it into a new satellite. Moscow and Washington were exchanging very angry words. Jimmy Carter accused Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev of lying, and the Soviets' TASS press agency shot back that Carter's statements were "bellicose and wicked." For Carter, the rapid series of events...