Word: flattest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November. Many of the discussions centered on such technical problems as the lunar module's limited fuel reserves. Because Neil Armstrong was forced at the last minute to take over the controls to avoid setting down in a boulder-strewn crater, NASA has scheduled landings on only the flattest lunar terrain until the LM's fuel capacity can be increased. That will mean no sorties into deep craters or rocky highlands for at least four more Apollo flights...
...tiny, like warriors who have become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close to Losey at his strongest and most asured in his choice...
Noodling around the discarded film scraps from old adventure and spy movies, pasting the label "camp" on anything that does not make sense, the producers are the flattest Pied Pipers ever to lead the television industry into its next phase. In Fame Is the Name of the Game, for example, Tony Franciosa is a dashing magazine writer who regales his rookie researcher with snappy one-liners: "What's the matter with you? You look like your Living Bra just died." Tony spends so much time tracking down the killers that he has no time to write the story; Dead...
Citizens of Washington, D.C., who have long insisted that their summer climate is the world's hottest and their ter rain the flattest, are turning into skiers-three new ski shops have opened in downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double...