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...experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks, the grimiest subways, inviting attack and expertly dispatching his assailants with his peacemaker...
...traditional winter vacation havens from the Bahamas to Hawaii, the story is the same. Businessmen agree that this season in the sun has been the dimmest in years. They blame the decline largely on the slumping stock market and the general economic slowdown in the U.S., but many concede that outrageous prices at the resorts also played a part...
...species. Owls' eyes, for example, do not move in their sockets. And Owl, Service found, could not see his own feet, or focus on anything closer than eight or ten inches away. For all Service could tell, owls may even see double all the time. Yet in the dimmest light Owl could spot a small moth 20 feet away-if it moved, and provided he was hungry...
...little play of puppets...everything happens in it that could never happen, its personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second...
Syncom I is orbiting at an average height of 22,000 miles. At this height its brightness is of the 17th magnitude, or 25,000 times fainter than the dimmest object that can be seen by the naked...