Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appraising eye expertly judged his station well until last June's showdown fight caught Bulganin too far out between yes and no: he accepted an invitation to chair a Presidium meeting after the Kremlin opposition had objected to Khrushchev's presiding. He has been on the skids ever since. After Khrushchev fought off the Presidium's move to replace him by summoning the whole Central Committee to overrule them, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich were promptly denounced as "antiparty intriguers" and banished to the sticks; Presidium Members Saburov and Pervukhin were set down soon after...
Very few Americans in Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
...mirrored story was less a study of tragedy's flowering than of the dark roots from which tragedy grows. To translate this study into dance movement was an uncommonly difficult task, and Choreographer Graham did not always succeed. With Clytemnestra (Martha Graham herself) at the ballet's eye, the black-gowned women and loinclothed men about her moved in an unhurried, severely ritualistic style that became occasionally monotonous in the long preludes to violence. But the economy of movement also produced fascinating effects, such as the shuttling plotters' dance in Act II, with Agamemnon's ghost...
Many viewers find it more than a little frightening. American Bandstand assaults the ear with rock 'n' roll interrupted only by mournful ballads. This is bad enough, but the show is even more dismaying to the eye: furrow-browed teen-agers jolting to the jangling beat of lyrics like "Skinny Minnie, she ain't skinny, she's tall, that's all." Worse yet is the sagging, zombie-eyed shuffle brought on by a ballad like Oh, Oh, Falling in Love. Some adult squares get the feeling that they are peeking at a hotbed of juvenile...
...Sullivan's modest sphere would not be conspicuous to the naked eye, but it could be picked up easily with low-power moonwatch telescopes. Its great virtue would be its short life. Even on a comparatively high orbit, the tenuous bubble of nothing would be slowed by faint traces of air on the threshold of space. Following a circular course 300 miles above the earth, it would live for only about ten days, and its rapid changes of speed and altitude would measure air density much more accurately than the slow responses of heavier satellites...