Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is more ferment than ever before about the need to re-examine the meaning of war in today's world. The idea of massive nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union has received perhaps too much attention. The ability of the U.S. to deal with new, high-tech weapons of conventional warfare-and new kinds of economic and political confrontations-has been neglected...
...jargon of the video revolution, this exotic antenna and its associated electronics are called an earth station, and the price is just as fancy as the name: from $3,500 to $14,000 for a good unit. The high tab is for high tech. An earth station pulls in a signal from one of the twelve U.S. and Canadian communication satellites beaming down from a fixed position 22,300 miles above the equator-what vid-whizzes call a "geosynchronous orbit." The signal is focused into an amplifier, which magnifies it up to 100,000 times before it is converted...
Harborplace on aesthetic grounds. Nory Miller, an associate editor of Progressive Architecture, maintains that "the buildings of Harborplace are a mash of cliches ?high tech, antique store, postwar modern, 19th century band shell and pavilion-by-the-sea?not well reconciled to each other nor resolved in themselves." Miller likens Harborplace to "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland...
...industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably expensive and ludicrously ineffective high-tech weaponry, and the manpower problems that have developed since the draft was halted...
...wild beast of sex--and tried to find a contemporary stage technology and idiom to match. He found it in touches like giant close-up projections of Lulu's eyeballs or skin, a luxuriant fur rug on which Lulu lounged like a restless tiger, and a high-tech set with mikes and floodlights that looked more like a recording studio than a stage. Breuer took plenty of license with Wedekind, but you can't help imagining Wedekind the experimenter nodding in approval. If necessary--for the purists--call this a "free fantasy on Lulu"; it worked...