Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rain spurred the ancient Greeks to sacrifice and prayer, the Indians to dance. Even today, poets find eternity in a single drop. Only women regard the heavens with a cold eye and sight catastrophe in the smallest cloud. No blessing to them, rain is a personal assault on hair and clothes, feet and face, makeup and morale, for which there is no adequate protection. Noah, at least...
Only a generation back, Venus was commonly thought of as a fine abode for lush, jungly life. As scientists learned more about the cloud-shrouded planet, its real estate values plummeted. Modern studies of Venus have pictured it as hot and waterless, certainly not a place for any kind of life that is known on earth. But last week Venus got a kind word. Professor John Strong of Johns Hopkins University reported that the Venusian atmosphere has a large amount of water vapor above its sunlit cloud deck...
...telescope above nearly all of the earth's atmosphere. An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected from the top of the cloud deck...
...rise to fame and her ill-starred marriage to Nicky Arnstein, the gambler-sport. But Streisand establishes more than a wellrecollected Fanny Brice. She establishes Barbra Streisand. When she is on stage, singing, mugging, dancing, loving, shouting, wiggling, grinding, wheedling, she turns the air around her into a cloud of tired ions. Her voice has all the colors, bright and subtle, that a musical play could ask for, and gradations of power too. It pushes the walls out, and it pulls them in. She is onstage for 111 of Funny Girl's 132 minutes...
...Hungarians who survived the dreadful three months of the World War II battle of Budapest, the army's presence and the memory of the cloud of death that hung over the city in April 1945 are inseparable. Not until that army leaves will "liberation" end and freedom begin...