Word: catching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant quarter-arcade game called Space Invaders. It is a reaction-time contest: shoot down the massed, marching aliens shown on the big TV screen before they shoot you. The refinements are satanic. The player has four blockhouses behind which to hide his man, but as the blockhouses catch fire under attack, they crumble. As the sound effects become more ominous, the aliens begin to shoot faster and more accurately. Blast them all -whew!-and another phalanx appears, nearer and more menacing. The action is jitteringly fast, and the tension is worsened by a sense of foreboding: as in life...
...rendering commissioned by the town shows a structure about 200 ft. high at its center (enough to clear the town's tallest building, eleven stories high), covering a square mile of Winooski; it is transparent on its southern side, where there are also solar panels to catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits...
...genius, with his astonishing powers of observation iand his bitter tongue ("Whistler, you behave as though you have no talent"), within the milieu of his time. Dunlop writes with warm understanding of Degas's paintings, discussing them without jargon; and his plain, elegantly turned prose does much to catch the "mysterious and fugitive beauty to many of his pictures which is apt to disappear under the scholarly microscope...
...Frank Tivan, associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council, said last, week offshore operations in the North Sea, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico were proof that drilling does not damage the ocean environment. "The catch of fish in the North Sea has increased four times. Rigs didn't impede the fishing industry," Tivan said...
...Frank Tivan, associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council, cited offshore operations in the North Sea, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico as proof that drilling does not damage the ocean environment. "The catch of fish in the North Sea has increased four times. Rigs didn't impede the fishing industry," Tivan said...