Word: poseidon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanations in Welles' orotund delivery become bemusingly classical: "The biggest dice game in history was for some very high stakes indeed. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades rolled for the universe. Poseidon won the oceans, Hades the underworld and Zeus the heavens. It is thought that Zeus owned the dice...
...strike without escalating the conflict, Washington might order a ten-missile attack on Soviet oil refineries. The OTA evaluates a case in which the U.S. fires three Minuteman Ills, each carrying a trio of warheads that can deliver a 170 kiloton explosive force, and seven submarine-launched Poseidon missiles that carry a total of 64 warheads, each with a 40 kiloton force. The attack instantly destroys 73% of Soviet refining capacity. But because the U.S. weapons are less powerful than Soviet warheads, there is less general damage. Between 1 million and 1.5 million people would...
...subs will carry 24 Trident I missiles, each with a dozen warheads. The older Polaris and Poseidon subs have only 16 missile-launching tubes aboard; Polaris missiles carry three warheads, Poseidon 14. Because the range of the Trident missile is 4,000 nautical miles, some 1,500 nautical miles greater than the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, the new subs will have a much wider expanse of ocean in which to hide while still being within striking distance of Soviet targets. Moreover, their ability to run faster and quieter than the older subs will make them harder for enemy ships...
...Kathleen Beller, who just played a terminally ill girl in a movie filmed in my home town of West Hartford, Connecticut (thank you), and who swam very naked in The Betsey. A group of silent and old-movie parodies, which we need like we need sequels to The Poseidon Adventure and King Kong...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We need a remake of Don Siegel's delightful tale of peapods trying to conquer the world like we need sequels to Rocky, King Kong and The Poseidon Adventure. I've never heard of the director, but Brooke Adams was lovely in Days of Heaven, and Jeff Goldbaum terrific as the rock-critic in Between the Lines...