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...running and the twin refrain: "Get up, get out, get into something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand-new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Women | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

Collecting in pools at the base of the car, the liquid appeared to "boil" and mixed with moisture in the air to form the gaseous cloud...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...spacecraft was fast approaching Saturn, whose image was being sent back with more clarity than could be obtained by any earth-bound telescope. One especially intriguing view, taken by the robot from a distance of 3.2 million km (2 million miles), showed both the giant ringed planet, a huge gaseous sphere 815 times larger than earth, and its major moon, Titan, where scientists have not entirely given up hope of finding evidence of primitive life forms. Pioneer also radioed data on two other Saturnian satellites (among ten known ones): lapetus, whose puzzling bright side seems to be crusted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Swinging by Saturn | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...robot will become the first envoy from earth to reconnoiter Saturn, passing within 21,300 km (13,300 miles) of the solar system's second largest planet. If the flyby goes as planned, Pioneer 11 will not only send back 50 colored closeups of the great ringed gaseous sphere but provide valuable data on its interior structure, temperature, density and magnetic field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Off to Saturn | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...feet long, took off from City Hall Plaza at 8 a.m., and "Baby Flo" took off from Fanueil Hall at noon. The smaller of the two gaseous giants, a mere 40 feet long, migrated down Boylston St. from the Christian Science Center to Copley...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: Whale Balloons Fly Through City Streets | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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