Word: nanoseconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-paced corporate odyssey of Michael J. Fox, who stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...
...dangerous as turning handsprings on a cliff. Beam injuries have been crippling, and few women ever lose their fear of it. When it is done well, the beam reveals a choreographed grace made lovelier by the rigors of its execution. But make a mistake, lose balance for a nanosecond, and the result is an ugly flailing of arms to remain perched on the thing or a bone-crunching fall...
...scientist friend has proved to his own and Tichy's satisfaction that the cosmos is "a fluke on the largest possible scale." It exploded from a protoatom that could not have existed; it pulses on borrowed energy as aberrantly as the subatomic particle that violates, for a nanosecond, physical laws. After 18 billion years or so, the universe's "monstrous debt" may come due at any time. Tichy figures out a way to repay it and make everything much nicer in the process, but his plan is altered by a satanic trio of laboratory workers before...
...television rights to the ceremony with Independent Television (ITV) and had choice camera locations outside. The BBC supplied its all-day feed to 81 foreign broadcasting companies, including ABC, CBS and NBC. Especially remarkable were the BBC'S pictures inside the cathedral. They were orchestrated down to a nanosecond by Producer Michael Lumley, who directed the shifting of cameras from religious icons to the boys choir to the royal couple in a way that perfectly matched the music and pace of the ceremony. From a 6-in. square window near the top of St. Paul's golden dome...
...Steve Ovett. Astonishingly, they have met only once before. In an 800-meter duel in 1978, they exhausted each other with kamikaze sprints, only to be passed by a third runner in the stretch. In Moscow, Coe is favored at 800 meters, and Ovett is given a nanosecond edge in the 1,500. Jim Tuppeny, a U.S. track official who is organizing an alternate meet in Philadelphia this month, handicaps the 1,500 this way: "Ovett is stronger, but if Coe goes out fast, lifts the times and then hangs on, he will...