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...cold nose of his space ship." Moser has also put a taboo on cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face. The smile is a tip-off to his moppet viewers, says Moser: "They know that Corry can get out of this spot -that he's got a plan...
Churchill's supporters could hardly believe that this was all their leader had to say. His famous oratorical power showed only in faint flashes, usually when he flicked at the critics ("Standing so smiling and carefree at the dispatch box, as if [they] had no responsibility for the shocking and shameful state to which our finances were reduced during [their] tenure . . .") or sniped like a Falstaffian schoolmaster at his hecklers...
...next day, the weepy, faint-prone old man was back in power. He had beaten Qavam and the Shah, who now gave Mossadegh the War Ministry he had earlier denied him. And he had beaten the British, even if his victories had left his country near anarchy and his people impoverished...
...gravitational lens." The gravitational field around it will be so intense that it will bend all light coming near it. Some rays, passing close, will be turned back on their tracks. Others will be turned less sharply. The result in the telescope's eye will be a faint disk of light made up of small contributions from all the stars in the universe. This blended light should be possible to identify with a spectroscope...
...Piovano dropped on her knees in the aisle and prayed: "Oh God, we beseech You to return to Eva Perón the health she has sacrificed to save us." Fellow members raised their bowed heads just in time to see the Congresswoman rise shakily to her feet, then faint dead away. In the solemnity of the hour, President of the Chamber Hector J. Cāmpora led the 124 Peronista deputies in swearing loyalty to Perón as President and to Evita as "Spiritual Chief of the Nation," the title by which she has been formally listed...