Word: blobs
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...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...Warm Blob Our Appreciation of film director Robert Wise [MILESTONES, Sept. 26] referred in a rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...
...wrote a bit of a story, went out with friends, and had a generally hedonistic summer weekend day. The only thing I saw that marked the day’s significance was something I caught out of the corner of my eye as I got dressed: an orange blob on the cover of a book...
...read your articles on America's new immigrants [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8], but I do not think of our country as a melting pot. To me that term implies that we have all been reduced to one large blob. I prefer to think of us as a symphony orchestra. Each instrument retains its individuality, yet contributes to the whole. Zena Sky Kansas City...
...Stephen Edberg and Charles Morris, both 33, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., drove up a rocky slope on Mount Waterman, 25 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Scanning the moonless heavens with his binoculars, Morris sighted a faint light source. Then he located the same diffuse blob with his naked eyes. Meanwhile, Edberg sketched the position of the dim light and compared his drawing with the magnified view of the object provided by his binoculars. Sure enough, there it was. The two men had made the first unaided sighting of Halley's comet since the celebrated phenomenon...