Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves. But Buňuel, who has lived and worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, is no Cervantes, his portrait of the tyrannized, superstition-racked land is as primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian aid but spurns the comfort of heaven to sigh for her lost lover. The stretches between such moments are bare and boring. Moreover, Bunuei's anticlerical...
Elizabeth plays Flora Goforth, a decaying harridan who has made herself one of the richest women in the world by marrying six husbands-"a pyramid of tycoons." She is spending the summer on her private Mediterranean is land, in a flashy white villa guarded by a sinister dwarf (Michael Dunn) and his killer dogs. When she is not screaming at her servants or bullying her pretty secretary (Joanna Shimkus), Flora is rasping out her gamy memoirs into a complex of microphones and tape recorders scattered throughout the house...
Meanwhile, pulsar theories continued to proliferate beyond the pulsating neutron-star and white-dwarf-star theories first suggested by Cambridge astronomers. Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker suggested that the signals might be caused by rapidly rotating white dwarfs with a local disturbance on their surfaces. Signals from the disturbance would sweep across the earth like a lighthouse beacon once during each rotation of such a star. British Astrophysicists Fred Hoyle and J. Narlikar propose that the signals are connected with supernovas, or exploding stars...
Enormously Wasteful. Several scientists have theorized that the pulses may be caused by white dwarf or neutron stars rotating rapidly around each other in a binary system; any particles passing through the rotating and intense magnetic field that must exist between the two stars would produce strong radiation that would periodically sweep the earth. Others have suggested that the intense gravity of a star in such a binary system would act as a lens, periodically intensifying and focusing the radiation from the twin star passing behind...
Most scientists agree with Drake's reasoning, and a slight majority now appears to favor the theory of extraordinary, vibrating white dwarf stars as the probable source of the signals from space. Said Jodrell Bank Astronomer Smith at the close of the Royal Astronomical Society meeting: "It looks as if the little green men are now white dwarfs...