Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Escape is possible with Walt Disney's most creative film, Fantasia (barely edging out The Love Bug and Flubber for the honor), which starts tomorrow at Harvard Square. Made in 1940, Fantasia stretches the mind with its animation and soothes the ear with Stravinsky and Bach...
From the Strait of Gibraltar to the edge of the Sahara, 620 miles away, all Morocco last week seemed to be on one giant national picnic. In towns and villages, men and women sang and danced to the din of drums and the ear-splitting piping of flutes; excited children ran through the streets and watched their parents and relatives board trains and buses for the south. King Hassan II's bizarre crusade to "liberate" the Spanish Sahara (TIME. Oct. 27) was ready to begin...
...Rosten and narrated by Actor E.G. Marshall, the hour-long film is entitled, naturally enough, The Incredible Machine. It uses microscopy, X rays and telescopic lenses tiny enough to penetrate the body's innermost recesses to capture the color, texture and activities of the heart, blood vessels, middle ear, lungs, bones and 'joints...
...film's most spectacular sequences depicts the process of conception from ovulation to development of an obviously human fetus (TIME, June 24, 1974). Other segments of the film are no less impressive. In one, bones, muscle and the membrane of the middle ear vibrate in time to Yankee-Doodle, helping transmit sound to the brain. In yet another, blood cells line up to pass one at a time through the tightly constricted passageway of a tiny vein. But one scene, more than any other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded...
...comfortable-but not lavish-quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck-a vestigial remnant of Catholicism-and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash...