Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than constructing complete flying saucers, with aluminum skin and Plexiglas bubble tops, Trumbull built about two dozen in different shapes with remote-controlled lights inside. The lights were then aimed at the camera lens, creating the optical effect known as lens flare. Says he: "We used that technique in order to have those UFO objects pass over, through or around whatever the human action was in the scene. You never really distinctly see anything except in a few very brief cuts...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...
...computers, her brief flight went exactly according to plan. "You're flying good," said one of the chase pilots, as the free-flying Enterprise tested her wings for the first time. A few moments later, Haise and Fullerton dropped the heavy craft down, then pulled up in a "flare," or simulated landing maneuver, to evaluate the orbiter's landing characteristics. "It's really there," said a delighted Haise of the shuttle's ease of handling. "Really tight...
...help each other that they had exhibited twelve years earlier. At Beame's request, stores, banks and most offices closed, reducing traffic on the city's streets. At the intersection of Park Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan, an athletic young man wearing a cape and holding a pink flare controlled traffic like a matador handling a bull. On the other side of the island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers-by turned Coney Island...
...expect the worst is not to be disappointed," he says. Considering himself close to his peak of popularity, he intends to "make the downhill slide as slow as possible." In a speech at the National Press Club last month, he tried to put out some brushfires before they flare up. "What happens at the White House," he said, "is not always as serious as we think it is. We need to relax a little bit, all of us, and get a sense of perspective about each other. Sometimes, when something goes wrong, it's not the result...