Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this pedestrian production, all that is least attractive in Brecht becomes dismayingly visible. He is a classroom martinet using the stage as a blackboard for his highly debatable theorems. He is forever barking out class-conscious slogans at what he regards as an inattentive crew of playgoing idiots. The Teutonic condescension of the man finally becomes as irritating as it is boring. Inspired direction can mask the defects of monumental didacticism, the preachiness of a Shaw without wit. This Director Vance fails to do. In Houston right now, the playhouse is the thing...
Under the direction of Producer-Director Milton Fruchtman, a crew of 25 worked nights for two months to get 25 miles of film and 650 still pictures, using a camera atop a 64-foot-high movable aluminum tower. Both the script and the overall editing are the work of a former TIME art critic, Alexander Eliot. Now a freelance writer of magazine articles and an author of books...
Human and Angelic. "So up we go. The tower trembles alarmingly as we ascend, and the faces of the tower crew below us look dime-sized. Now the ceiling seems to tent us in, and there is a vast rush of images, a crystalline turbulence. The clarity of colors is the first surprise. From the floor, the figures overhead look like painted sculpture. Up here you find transparency, veils of atmosphere, light-filled shadows. Perhaps Michelangelo felt that opaque colors would be out of place in a world of legend, myth and mystery...
...ship is in orbit, the astronauts and ground controllers will check out all the systems on board, making certain that they are operating properly and that the duplicate and backup systems are in working order. On their second revolution around the earth, if no problems have arisen, the Apollo crew will reignite the S-4B rocket engine over the Pacific near Hawaii. In a 5-min. 11-sec. burning period, the S-4B will accelerate to an "escape" velocity of 24,200 m.p.h., pushing Apollo out of earth orbit and off toward the moon...
...momentum and the weak lunar gravity would combine to carry it around the moon and fling it back toward earth in a spatial version of crack-the-whip. Indeed, if a recheck of systems and equipment convinces ground controllers and the astronauts that serious problems have developed, the crew will merely continue in this new course and travel back to earth. But if everything seems all right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled by the moon into...