This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

In 1984, he directed the music video of Bruce Springsteen's song " Dancing In The Dark ".

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 film Gremlins and directed the Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch ( 1990 ).

In 1984 Coppola directed Robert Evans-produced The Cotton Club.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Wes Craven directed A Nightmare On Elm Street ( 1984 ).

* Kaos ( film ), a 1984 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

In 1984, Arnaud Sélignac produced and directed a film called Nemo or Dream One, starring Jason Connery, Harvey Keitel and Carole Bouquet.

In 1984 Scott directed a big-budget ( US $ 900, 000 ) television commercial to launch the Apple Macintosh computer.

Repo Man is a 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox.

Apple's famous " 1984 " television commercial, introducing the Apple Macintosh computer and directed by Ridley Scott, ran during a timeout in the third quarter.

The memoir was adapted and produced as a TV movie, Solomon Northup's Odyssey ( 1984 ), directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1984, a made-for-TV movie, based on Northup's memoir, was directed by Gordon Parks.

* In 1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

* Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ) ( book by James Lapine ; directed by James Lapine )

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and William Wisher Jr. and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

In 1984, Moore had another hit, starring in the Blake Edwards directed Micki + Maude, co-starring Amy Irving.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

In 1984, the memoir was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1984 the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City produced a modern dress Julius Caesar set in contemporary Washington, called simply CAESAR !, starring Harold Scott as Brutus, Herman Petras as Caesar, Marya Lowry as Portia, Robert Walsh as Antony, and Michael Cook as Cassius, directed by W. Stuart McDowell at The Shakespeare Center.

:: A politically-oriented film directed by J. Lee Thompson in 1984

In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism ( Deep Impact, 1998 ), or as a trigger of global apocalypse ( Lucifer's Hammer, 1979 ) or of waves of zombies ( Night of the Comet, 1984 ).

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

The Return of Godzilla ( released in Japan as simply )), is a 1984 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, fifth in a series of six novels.

His novels were recognized as the best in science fiction in Poland in 1982 ( Limes inferior and in 1984 ( Paradyzja ).

Icehenge ( 1984 ) is a science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson.

In 1984 the WMO commissioned Georgy Golitsyn and N. A. Phillips to review the state of the science.

The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.

After receiving a physics bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1984, he went to the American University in Washington, D. C. and got his master's degree in computer science in 1988.

Additionally, the Research Science Institute ( formerly the Rickover Science Institute ), founded by Admiral Rickover in 1984, is a highly respected summer science program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for aspiring high school seniors from around the world.

It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for best novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award in the same category.

The first vertebrate Hox gene was isolated in Xenopus by Eddy De Robertis and colleagues in 1984, marking the beginning of the young science of Evo-devo.

The science fiction writer Bob Shaw's 1984 novel Fire Pattern deals with spontaneous human combustion.

TSR, Inc. released the Dragonlance saga in 1984 after two years of development, making TSR the number one publisher of fantasy and science fiction novels in the USA.

In the 1984 U. S. science fiction film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Holland Township is the location of the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension !, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 parody science fiction film.

* Richard S. Myers, S-F 2: A pictorial history of science fiction from 1975 to the present, 1984, Citadel Press, ISBN 0-8065-0875-2.

He received many awards and honors for his work in climate research, including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal ( 1984 ), the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement ( 1988 ), the highest atmospheric science award of the American Meteorological Society and the Blue Planet Prize ( 1995 ), often considered as the Nobel Prize for environmental sciences.

Category: 1984 in science

Journalist Bruno de Latour coined the term domotic in 1984. Domotic has been recently introduced in vocabulary as a composite word of Latin word domus and informatics, or a contraction of domestic robotics, and it refers to intelligent houses meaning the use of the automation technologies and computer science applied to the home.

BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps.

The terms " meatspace " and " meat world " are apparently derived originally from the science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, published in 1984, which also coined the term " cyberspace.

On completion of his studies in political science and international relations, he taught and held administrative offices in various universities: teaching assistant and research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1960 – 62 ); visiting lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ( summer 1962 ); assistant professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, ( fall 1962 ); lecturer / senior lecturer, University of Ibadan, where he became professor ( 1965 – 88 ), head of department ( 1965 – 72 ), and dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences ( 1966 – 68 ); Cadbury Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Birmingham Center for West African Studies, Birmingham, UK ( 1972 – 73 ); founding vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria ( 1975 – 79 ); visiting professor and head of department ; dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Development Studies ; and member of the Governing Council, all of the University of Cross River State, Uyo, Nigeria ( 1984 – 86 ).

In other words, in a science fiction novel, the world itself is a distinctive and crucial character in the plot, without whom the story could not take place, whether it's the world of Dune or Neuromancer or 1984.