Word: whirligigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before Reykjavik, the Soviets had indicated that they would be willing to make an interim deal on INF divorced of strategic and defensive issues. The American game plan had been to decouple as many issues as possible from the prickly SDI dispute. But Gorbachev enticed the Americans into a whirligig of negotiations with his sweeping proposals. Only toward the end, when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped on nearly all non-SDI issues, did it become clear just how adamant the Soviets were on linking the entire package to the scuttling of Star Wars. "Before Reykjavik, the Soviets were...
...launched by Japan, two by the Soviet Union and one by the eleven nations of the European Space Agency (ESA). The close encounters were set for March because that is when the comet passes through earth's orbital plane, the same level in which the spacecraft travel. Over several whirligig days, the flotilla will scrutinize the comet in exhaustive detail, from the fuzzy gaseous cloud that surrounds its icy nucleus to the two tails that by then will be streaming for millions of miles behind...
...lobby of Building No. 391 at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory near San Francisco stands a cast-iron sculpture of Shiva, the multiarmed god whose whirligig dances, according to Hindu tradition, alternately create and destroy all earthly life. Near by is a wood-and-plastic model of Nova, the world's most powerful laser, which is housed in cavernous quarters the size of a football field. The juxtaposition of the two objects is apt, and for several reasons. Like Shiva, the $176 million laser bristles with its equivalent of arms: ten bright blue tubes, each a conduit for an intense laser beam...
...this time. Blood Simple (the title comes from Dashiell Hammett) works terse, elegant variations on a theme as old as the Fall; it subverts the film noir genre in order to revitalize it; it offers the satisfactions and surprises of a conniving visual style. Most important, it displays the whirligig wit of two young men--Joel Coen, 30, a graduate of New York University film school, and his brother Ethan, 27--in a debut film as scarifyingly assured as any since Orson Welles was just this wide...
...reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really goes to work, a virtually nonstop whirligig of meetings throughout the morning. At 1 p.m., he tries to get away for a lunch in the kitchen at home with his ailing wife Aliza. He rests until 4, then goes back to the office for more meetings until 7 p.m. At night, he dozes only occasionally in front...