Word: zap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What worries crime experts is that wire transfers, which banks use to zap some $1 trillion in funds around the globe each week, could be so susceptible to security breaches. Says a senior officer of First Chicago: "It's impossible to do something like this without the help of an insider. But once you have the insider, it's almost a childlike process...
...Zap. Gephardt was back. "I do think it would be possible," he said, "now that Mike has modified his trade stance, and if the convention desires . . ." His voice trailed off. The director ordered a close-up of Dukakis, silently doing the math once more; Gephardt, even if he could sway all his delegates, could not assure the nomination. "Forgive me, Ted," Dukakis said, "but really this is not the forum to be holding such conversations. As I've said before, I'll be talking with Dick and many others, but I don't think this is the place...
Madden is able to let the audience know it too. His commentary is a whir of windmilling arms and an exuberant bark of POW!, WHAM! and ZAP! as the linemen collide. The fans have come to recognize the All-Madden players by their grimier shirts and more human qualities. They know Madden favors real grass over artificial turf and mud over dirt. From last Thanksgiving's broadcast: "That's kind of the way the game should be played. I mean -- Thanksgiving Day, the fireplace, the turkey, football players out there playing in the snow. Wet, mud, stuff like that...
Ronald Reagan appeared to be standing on the threshold of a Buck Rogers future. In a Martin Marietta Corp. research plant outside Denver last week, the President stood before an 18-ft. partial mock-up of a chemical laser project that might one day be rocketed into space to zap Soviet nuclear missiles heading for the U.S. Reagan assured company engineers that the Strategic Defense Initiative, his space-based antimissile program, was "bounding forward" and that they were not working on a bargaining chip to be traded away in an arms deal...
AMAZON WOMEN on the Moon brings to mind an image from another film, Being There: Peter Sellers, as Chance the Gardener, away from his TV set and in the real world for the first time, trying to zap some all-too-real muggers out of existence with his TV's remote control...