Word: thrusting
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...Galactic Joyride In your article on the thrust to develop space tourism [March 5], you didn't point out the enormous amount of energy required for a brief thrill ride to space. The unmanned space program has brought advances in communications technology and defense systems. The sole significant justification for manned spaceflight is ... more spaceflight. Manned spaceflight for exploration's sake is one thing. Trying to justify it on economic grounds is another. John Day, Powell, Ohio...
...ledge of a balcony. From Soho, the two towers loom much larger, occupying much of the right half of the photograph, and are accompanied by a suggestively shaped silo on the left. Unlike their marine counterparts, both these women look weary; the phallic and inhospitable city thrust upon their delicate complexions. Clergue’s recent “Nu Zébré” series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked...
...just Allen's serpentine poise as the officers quiz him that seems inhuman? You might crack if you were confronted with mounds of damning, if circumstantial, evidence. But Allen parries each thrust or shrugs it off, never taking their bait, meeting their suspicions with his steely stare. You'll feel a chill in the theater, and in your blood, for it's here that Zodiac becomes the good movie the real killer was waiting for. And no one could play him better than Lynch...
...shifted to create an intense, thunderstorm palette. Creatures and landscapes and entire armies were created from scratch. With the kind of computing power directors have at their disposal, editing becomes more like painting than moviemaking. Time speeds up for dramatic effect, then slows down to capture a balletic spear thrust. Computer-generated elephants rear up and plummet off computer-generated cliffs. The Persian King Xerxes becomes 9 ft. tall. In one scene a nubile oracle dances in a trance, her hair and her flowy, filmy wrap swirling surreally around her otherwise nude body (300 earns every inch...
...Certainly that seemed to be the thrust of Iowan questions at Obama's Wednesday event: cancer research, mental health care, health insurance, nutrition in the schools. Ordinary Iowans will continue to make the most of their caucus process for as long as it lasts. And these dutiful Midwestern citizens, my friends and family among them, will continue to view it all as a very serious responsibility. Call me naive or sentimental, but I find this inspiring...