Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paying a price for safety," says Flight Director Glynn Lunney. "The spacesuits are bulkier, the Fiberglas itches like hell, and the seat belts are difficult to cinch down because they are so stiff. But you are seeing a spacecraft several hundred percent improved." Apollo's new safety devices, and a string of successful shots during the past year, have partially restored NASA's confidence. Four unmanned Apollo spacecraft have now flown without serious mishap, two of them atop the mighty rocket Saturn...
...Neill especially, says Translator Koji Numazawa, "is haunting to us Japanese, with his tortuous groping for an answer to the overwhelming question of God's existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki influence. "The actors would play for the audience instead of for each oth er," says Clurman. "This is just the opposite from the technique of modern re alism, in which the actors are supposed to play to each...
When there is nothing going for him beyond his own confidence in his genius, the pugnacious young artist always takes on God. That is understandable; if he can convince God of his superiority, the public will be a cinch. When he wrote his challenge to the Deity in 1895, Stephen Crane was only 24, but he had already won his public as the author of the flawless Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal...
Until his reputation eroded, he had been considered a cinch for reelection. A lawyer who combined business and political acumen, Long was lieutenant governor when he became the Democrats' 1960 compromise choice to succeed the late Senator Thomas Hennings. Lapsing into Washington obscurity, he emerged in 1965 to launch an assault on federal wiretapping at the time that Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa was trying to escape prison, charging that the Government bugged his telephone. For a while, Long was the civil libertarians' darling. Then came an exposé in LIFE revealing his connections...
...handful of sopranos have felt equal to the task of impersonating one of the most complex, heroic and appealing roles in opera. The latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price by cutting the score. Yet quality prevails. Everyone involved-from engineers to Conductor Silvio Varviso-has outdone himself...