Word: circularity
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...Laboratory, who recently discovered the cause of unexpected variations in the altitude and speed of earlier unmanned lunar orbiters. Such flight deviations, which could drop a module several miles off target, were caused by local increases in lunar gravity brought about by areas of dense material beneath the five circular maria, or "seas." The concentrations of mass, called "mascons," may have been caused by the impact of large meteors, which generated enough heat to melt material below the surface of the moon and form regions of high density...
Finally, a camera style of slow and balanced moving shots is, successfully executed, one of the great joys of narrative film. When Chris goes to Paul to reassure him in a scene discussed earlier, Chabrol cuts together shots already in motion, joining a shot moving left in a circular are, a crane down from high angle, a forward track moving left, one moving right, and a pull back to wide-angle. The effect is again one of montage--the creation of masterful rhythm from smaller individual rhythms -- and again the illusion gives way to the truth of the image...
...Cream Parlor. At Panmunjom itself, a petty little game of one-upmanship still goes on. Long ago, the North Koreans built a circular guard-post on a hill (dubbed "the ice-cream parlor" by the U.N. side) so as to have the highest building at Panmunjom. When the U.N. command took away the altitude superiority by erecting a two-story building, North Korea put a star atop the ice-cream parlor to re-establish its height advantage by a couple of inches. U.N. guards at Panmunjom are mostly U.S. military police, chosen for their size and brawn to tower over...
...guided from the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. NASA scientists there had to perform a series of intricate maneuvers before they could call for the unreeling of the satellite's four main antennas. First they had to nudge the 417-Ib. satellite into a circular, near-polar orbit about 3,640 miles above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called an apogee-kick motor. Tho operation evened out the varying gravitational tugs of the original elliptical orbit, which would have bent and distorted the antennas. Next, RAE-A's masters...
...Sentinel debate. The system's opponents could claim credit for underscoring U.S. reluctance to pay for redundant weaponry. Its proponents could congratulate themselves for prompting Gromyko's move. Together, they proved that the shortest distance in rocket diplomacy between Washington and Mos, cow is often a circular line...