Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the tragedy to suggest a terrible conclusion, one with dismaying implications for a nuclear-armed world: the U.S., and by extension other countries using high-tech weapons, may have become prisoners of a technology so speedy and complex that it forces the fallible humans who run it into snap decisions that can turn into disaster...
Roger Rabbit careers like a Toontown trolley and boasts a technical dexterity that Walt Disney could only have daydreamed of. At first you may snap to suspicious attention when, say, a cartoon stork pedals a real bicycle, or Jessica diddles a human's necktie. But the film encourages you to vacation in its ingenuity. Drop by the Ink and Paint Club, Toontown's toniest dive, where the password is "Walt sent me," penguin waiters patrol in tuxedos, and Daffy and Donald Duck, together for the first time, perform a piano duet. Meet old friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety...
Moscow kitchen workers, soldiers and maids waited in long lines at hotels to snap up costly and usually unavailable religious books, medals and icon reproductions. At the celebrated 14th century monastic center at Zagorsk, 40 miles northeast of Moscow, the crowds and food stalls lent a carnival air. An aged woman who had come from Leningrad said, "I'm no longer afraid to tell people I'm a Christian," as tears streamed down her cheeks. A young mother held the hands of her two youngsters and remarked, "I hope they can wear their crosses with pride...
...Tokyo), nearly 50% of the customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says Graver: "They just gobble those up each time we get an order." As creative director for a Paris advertising agency, Rene Fatton, 41, lives in the world's fashion...
Beyond Kabul, there are signs that Gorbachev wants to win friends and influence governments. But Moscow' s goal is still to stymie the U. S. -- A snap election in Denmark raises the question of whether NATO' s members can have a pick- and- choose defense. -- In France a victorious Mitterrand names a Socialist Cabinet. -- Kim Philby, British traitor and master spy, is dead...