Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence of the space race on astronomy. "The Apollo program, plus bad publicity, killed off public interest; it was extremely ill-advised to sell such things on TV, which, after all, goes for the lowest common denominator of mentality, because as a result, space programs became a bore; they were not astronomically illuminating to the few, and the many were never really excited." He straddles the chair and adjusts his tie--red, with green football players...
...money, talent, ambition. As a boy, he showed a remarkable innate talent for tinkering; he built one of the first licensed "ham" stations in Texas, using an old doorbell and an auto-ignition system. His father, known as "Big Howard," had developed the first oil-drill bit that could bore through rock, thus opening vast untapped fields to exploration. "Little Howard" was only 18 when his father died, but he persuaded a Texas court to declare him to be of age. He bought out his relatives and took over the Hughes Tool Co. as sole owner...
...MYTHOLOGIZATION of Watergate was instantaneous. We are now in a second stage of it, what might be called the mythologization of the inside and the insider's point of view. In the first stage, the heroes were the men who bore the brunt of the investigation in the public spotlight--the judges, prosecutors, crusading congressmen and even, to some, the System itself. Now we are being told about the Inner Mysteries of Watergate--though I imagine there are at least six more veils to go. The new heroes are the men on the inside, who had little to do with...
...splashing, accidental manipulation, transfer blots - that Ernst did not pioneer; and if the work of his last 30 years (except for the sculpture, which is still much underrated) rarely seemed as impressive as his early collages or his dreamlike images of the '20s and '30s, it still bore testimony to one of the most durable and fertile talents of our entire culture, a great enemy of the trivial and the bogus and the solemn...
...world in futuristic "Formula I" nodules of fiber glass. Theirs is a life of death and daring where excess baggage means two cars and a couple of glacé blondes. "This is the only gentlemen's sport left," observed a Caracas businessman. "Polo and tennis are such a bore...