Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitor to Venus were insulated and refrigerated against the 536° F. surface temperature, he might survive long enough to see both a sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted...
...craft of show biz s the art of the popular song. Over the years, she has learned the arcane alchemy through which a tune can be transformed by its treatment. When her warm, smoky voice curls languidly around a lyric or teases it along with up-tempo jazz phrasing, familiar material reveals unsuspected meanings and yields new freshets of feeling. "There are always deeper layers to discover in a song," she says. "That's why I'm never bored." Neither are her listeners...
...more familiar applications, liquefied gases freeze food up to six times as fast as conventional freezing and produce smaller ice crystals, thus damaging fewer food cells. Liquid gases are being used in head and neck surgery, and to freeze human and animal semen for later use in artificial insemination...
...theatrical language of the National Theater is the familiar signing of the deaf, abetted by skilled pantomime. To help audiences follow the action, two members of the company with normal hearing speak the lines-sometimes from the sidelines, sometimes onstage-synchronizing their words with the actors' gestures...
...movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds there is a variety of sexual activity ranging from earnest fornication through onanism, homosexuality, and-since these pursuits are so familiar to fiction nowadays-some rather esoteric variations. The denouement takes place at a masked ball, where the participants shed everything but their masks. And who should end up dancing together but Merry Houseman and her daddy...