Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on their own. Later models will need stabilizing devices to take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently on the rugged surface of the moon...
...inaudible dialogue, the invisible actors (they studiously avoided the spots of light in which they were supposed to stand), the embarrassing moments of silence (while actors waited for props to descend from the ceiling), the inappropriate music, the stiff and ungainly choreography--all might have been bearable had there been any actors on stage who knew what they were doing...
Traffic Jam. All these cars will descend on a market in which there is such a traffic jam of nameplates and models that many a customer is already confused enough. The customer now has 17 standard-sized cars to pick from, most of them with such a welter of models, motors, options and accessories that it is possible to buy a Chevrolet in more than 100,000 different combinations. And compacts are available in 89 models produced under eleven nameplates. Only the small foreign car has not been burgeoning; since the U.S. compacts were introduced, sales of foreign cars have...
...conduct was to become humanized through Liu's example. Calaf's cruel desertion of Liu and Timur and Turandot's vicious behavior towards her subjects and suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed), the composer intended Calaf and Turandot "to descend through love to the level of mankind." They would at times echo Liu's touchingly simple music. Her sacrifice would not have been in vain. But, at the same time, through the sheer excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that...
...inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel has a sweetly smiling Angel descend to the stage to tell them about the better life to which they are, forthwith, going...