Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his earliest days in Algeria, young Albert was transfigured by irony. When he was eleven months old, his father was killed in the Battle of the Marne. The intellectual, curious boy was raised by an illiterate mother and grandmother. In adolescence he developed the physique of an athlete and the lungs of an invalid. By the age of 17 he was coughing blood, and soon afterward retired from the soccer field. Other arenas soon presented themselves. Not quite 21, Camus married Simone Hie, a beautiful young woman and a drug addict. Within a year the couple were estranged...
...curious thing about the surge of burglaries in Avenel, N.J., was their regularity: they all seemed to take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays between...
Sitting in his Fifth Avenue apartment, even William Paley, 77, the venerable head of CBS, felt the frustration. "I wanted to see Cuckoo's Nest," he confesses, "but I was also curious to see how Gone With the Wind looked today. A lot of people who wanted to see it again were robbed of Cuckoo's Nest, and vice versa. The public is getting an uneven break during these sweeps weeks. Everybody is sick and tired of them...
...that the movie fails to engage us? There is the well-realized meeting between two curious and disparate minds. Added to this is a sweet courtship and real marriage between Field and a gas station attendant (Beau Bridges), a man with few brains but good, patient instincts. The problem lies in story development. There is something dreadfully predictable about the way the tale moves. When Norma Rae finally causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film...
...most curious of all these major moons is the innermost, lo (pronounced eye-oh). Roughly the size of the earth's own moon, it has reddish polar caps, a yellowish sodium cloud cover and a strange surface chemistry that may be a consequence of intense radiation bombardment. On its closest approach, Voyager will come within 18,800 km (11,650 miles) of this mysterious moon. Then, as Voyager sweeps away, its instruments will get glimpses of the other Jovian moons, perhaps even a tiny 14th moon, which was spotted several years...