Word: wondrousness
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...terrible moments at Tenerife served as a reminder that modern man, such an assumed master of technology, will never be able to control perfectly the wondrous machines he creates. Seventy investigators?representing Spain, which holds sovereignty over the Canary Islands, the U.S., The Netherlands, Pan Am and KLM?probed the disaster. Human error seemed the most probable cause. As U.S. Federal Aviation Administrator John McLucas put it: "Apparently not everybody had his head up." The only other possibility was an unlikely malfunction in radio equipment that could have prevented the KLM pilot from hearing the last vital communications from...
...Washington assault was the culminating event of a spate of terrorist acts that have bedeviled the country. It proved again how vulnerable the society is to such attacks. Given the circumstances, it was wondrous that the drama ended with so little blood spilled: one dead and four wounded by gunfire, a dozen others cut and beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors...
Solar energy is being tapped in many strange and wondrous ways. In New Mexico, where the sun is seldom obscured by clouds. Inventor Steve Baer heats his futuristic-looking home by means of a "passive" solar system that has a minimum of mechanical components. The south-facing walls of Baer's home outside Albuquerque are floor-to-ceiling windows, and behind these glass panels are walls composed of water-filled 55-gal. steel drums. The drums absorb the sun's heat by day, radiate it at night when the windows are covered by huge clamshell-like shutters...
Silly, certainly. But the plots for such flights into never-never land have never been notable for probability. The movie could have worked with hard effort and a little magic, but something has gone terribly wrong. Director Minnelli's once wondrous alchemy turns everything to lead. The movie is disjointed, sappy, hysterical; and the actors, perhaps sensing trouble, press on with painful, overbearing desperation. American-International, the distributor, has substantially recut the movie, which is easy enough to believe. A Matter of Time does not look at all like a Minnelli movie. The fastidious craftsmanship that he has through...
...these sequences is as awesome as the trouble they caused, especially in the fussy business of seamlessly melding ape and human footage-essentially by employing sophisticated double-exposure techniques. This marrying of trick and conventional photography is still going on, but the available samples indicate that the illusions work-wondrous conjurer's tricks performed on a brobdingnagian scale...