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There are also angry, loving, weary monologues by Aladdin's mother, delivered in suitably earth-bound settings, and consistently funny allusions to the Sultan's autonomy, as when the Grand Wazir explains to the disrespectful Scholar Wu that the Sultan has spared his life because "the absolute impotence of your attacks consoles him." Or when a Lady of the Sultan's court agrees with Aladdin's mother about the Princess's beauty: "She's a lovely girl. I say so, so should you: to do otherwise would be treason...
...Browne populated that world with hold-outs, who stand apart from, or at most knee-deep in, the main-stream as they await the Deluge which will "wash this planet clean like the Bible said." Hold-outs are not always female, nor is their chastity always physical; that particular earth-bound purity embodies the amorphous, essential faith Browne is still defining with this sixth album...
...voice of the astronauts" in the early 1960s; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Phoenix. Powers was a much decorated pilot in World War II, the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War before rocketing to fame as a NASA spokesman beginning in 1959. As Project Mercury's earth-bound "eighth astronaut," he contributed the phrase A-O.K. to the nation's vocabulary...
...astronauts were sensitive about their missions' being controlled by earth-bound technicians. The chosen seven had pulled out of enough tight corners and survived enough glitches to rise to the top of what Wolfe, in a seizure of cliché avoidance, calls "the ziggurat." As a reminder that he was there too, Yeager told reporters he did not want to be an astronaut because they did no real flying. He then rubbed it in by saying that "a monkey's gonna make the first flight." Shepard, Glenn and company bucked back, demanding and getting concessions like an override...
...Francisco, scientists fretted in their seats. But as the pictures flashed onto the screen, the tension eased. After a journey of 6½ years, the small unmanned Pioneer 11 spacecraft was fast approaching Saturn, whose image was being sent back with more clarity than could be obtained by any earth-bound telescope. One especially intriguing view, taken by the robot from a distance of 3.2 million km (2 million miles), showed both the giant ringed planet, a huge gaseous sphere 815 times larger than earth, and its major moon, Titan, where scientists have not entirely given up hope of finding...