Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childhood. The normally irresponsible years of infancy and adolescence must be replaced by a competition for survival; the process of maturity becomes the development of an emotional callousness. Of all the post-war movies ("Shoe Shine," "The Search," "The Bicycle Thief") that have described these children, "Germany Year Zero" presents the most drastic outcome--the story of a twelve-year-old boy who was so embittered by life during his few years that he committed suicide...
...report suggests no defense at all against the heat of the bomb, holds out almost no hope for buildings less than half a mile from the zero point. And the recommendations it does make are based on an almost obsolete weapon-not the improved bombs already tested at Eniwetok, or the hydrogen bomb that is soon to come...
Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...
Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's realistic camera turned loose on a twelve-year-old boy's struggle for existence in postwar Berlin (TIME, Sept...
Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's realistic camera turned loose on a twelve-year-old boy's struggle for existence in postwar Berlin (TIME, Sept...