Word: aloftness
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...giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close look at the behavior of liquid hydrogen in space...
...most accomplished scene-stealers in movies. Grouped like angry mosquitoes in the grey-green skies over France during World War I, a handful of meticulously reconstructed biplanes and triplanes give this ambitious battle drama its only real sting. Goggled pilots, scarves tucked into their leather daredevil jackets, scramble aloft to trigger a full-throttle facsimile of the epic aerial combats of 1918. Of course, as members of an enemy German squadron, the men in their flying machines are shown to be less than magnificent...
...space center, she telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...
...Young World tries to speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...
SWEET CHARITY is kept aloft by Dancer Gwen Verdon, a one-woman whirlwind propelled by Director Bob Fosse's breezy choreography. Unfortunately, Neil Simon's book about a goodhearted doxy duped by love is woefully becalmed...