Word: firmamental
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Soft as a lion-pad I heard the gun-carriages turn, saw them vomit and drool; the firmament sagged and all the stars turned black. Black ocean bleeding and the brooding stars breeding chunks of fresh-swelled flesh while overhead the birds wheeled and out of the hallucinated sky fell the balance with mortar and pestle and the bandaged eyes of justice. All that is here related moves with imaginary feet along the parallels of dead orbs; all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath...
...picture. "Let that one go," says one. "He says he don't wanna be mah equal." He treats the space race between Russia and the U.S. with barbell scorn: a monkey up a tree demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets, he aims at many, misses few. Mauldin's Khrushchev stands in the U.N., a squat, solitary and ridiculous figure with his own shoe stuffed into his mouth. As for Russia's huge and backward Orientalally, Communist China...
...moon," he reported. "The sun in outer space is tens of times brighter than here on earth. The stars are easily visible. They are bright and distinct. The entire picture of the firmament has much more contrast than when seen from the earth." The sunlit side of the earth, he said, was quite plain, and he could easily see the shores of continents, islands, big rivers, folds in the terrain, large bodies of water. When passing over the Soviet Union, he spotted the great squares of collective farms. He could even tell cultivated land from pasture...
Until five years ago, electronic composers usually achieved their effects with a single speaker; now they have four-track tapes, permitting the use of multiple speakers. Says Cologne's Otto Tomek: "We recently installed 30 speakers around four walls, which gave the impression of a firmament of sound like stars in the sky. It was like being inside a big bell. There is so much to explore with music in space that we will be busy for years...
Ezekiel's "four living creatures." each with four wings, who came out of a whirlwind, writes Aircraft Mechanics Instructor Arthur W. Orton, were really space visitors equipped with four-bladed, backpack helicopters. They wore transparent space helmets ("And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creatures was as the color of the terrible crystal"), and their "four faces"-of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle-were the prophet's description of their respiratory and walkie-talkie apparatus. The whirling of their jet-tipped helicopter blades made Ezekiel's fiery "wheels...