Word: etherealizing
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...many people come over to me on the street and repeat almost verbatim the line the Martians say to Woody Allen in Stardust Memories: 'You know, we like your earlier, funnier films.'" It's no surprise that Spielberg quoted Allen; the two great filmmakers breathe the same ether. My living room is graced with two film posters, one for Spielberg's Schindler's List, the other for Allen's Shadows and Fog. I look at them to remind myself of the hope and magic that great directors can bring to an audience...
...courage to talk about these issues--whether they're fictional representations of real events or are pure fiction or pure documentaries--as long as we're willing to talk about the real tough, hard subjects unsparingly, I think it's a good thing to get out in the ether. It's not a bad thing. And there's a project I'm initiating next February that I think might also do some good...
...time at Harvard comes to a close, I would hate for the tried-and-true methods I’ve discovered for winning Undergraduate Council (UC) races to fade into the ether. So just mix-and-match these suggestions and cruise on to electoral triumph...
...antelope dashed off, I briefly awakened to my real environment, but in no time the satellite beamed me up again. I was back in the ether with the Gloved One, orbiting America without touching it--until I got to Rawlins, Wyo., where the antenna on my roof blew off. When I couldn't fix the suction cup that held it there, I tuned in to local AM radio. A voice--a low, male, unhurried Western voice--was describing a school lunch menu for the week. "Chicken-fried steak," the voice said, "and green beans." The words were astonishing. Startling...
...Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed the appendix in 21/2 hours, sending Rector back to work within two weeks...