Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master molecule of life: "We understand how an organism can build molecules, although the largest of them is far too minute for us to see, even with a high-powered microscope; yet we do not understand how it builds a flower or a hand or an eye, all of which are plainly visible to us." Even less is known, Crick notes, about how an animal's nervous system is formed, how the growth of the nerves is directed and how they are hooked...
Everything is relative, and it is only natural to compare this film to Star Wars. In this comparison, Close Encounters loses. It is not as funny, exciting, eye-boggling, or unreal, Star Wars was unadulterated fantasy and does not make pretensions of reality. Close Encounters tries too hard to be more than just a typical science fiction film...
What has hit the Soviet Union is a microbe that is invisible except to devices like the electron-microscope eye: an influenza virus. It appears to have surfaced first hi Khabarovsk, on the border between Soviet Siberia and Chinese Manchuria. (Soviet sources suggested that it might have originated in Southeast Asia as it has appeared in Hong Kong.) For obscure reasons, the Siberia-Manchuria border and nearby areas are suspected of having been the spawning ground of almost all, if not all, epidemic-causing influenza viruses. This region has been indicted as the birthplace of the notorious A-2 strain...
...Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there could have been no better medium than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind the faithful that Big Brother was watching, that the eye of the state found its model in the all-seeing eye of God. With its Christs enthroned...
...battlefield. But in 1766, when Stubbs finally published his scrupulous horse drawings, they were recognized as masterly. His paintings, however, were admired mainly by horse lovers, many of them titled. Only in the past two decades have modern critics begun to value him highly, because he had a fine eye for English landscape and deceptively simple pastoral scenes of farmers at work...