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...turn to testify, Ed Nixon came on as the eternal, jug-eared kid brother of the family. His face is longer and thinner, but he bears a remarkable resemblance to the President. When he talks-confidently and fluently-his hands even move in the same eager way. A geologist, he now works as a consultant on environmental affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Brothers Nixon | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...Liberation movement, this funny and affectionately bitchy play might better have been called My Fag Friend. Lynn Redgrave is supposedly the star of the proceedings-a pathologically tubby bookstore owner who 1) outgrows muumuus as she miserably devours chocolates; 2) meets and falls in love with an itinerant oil geologist; 3) heroically goes off her feed in order to turn herself into what looks like a young Angela Lansbury, only to discover 4) that her lover, back from prospecting in Iran, actually prefers fat girls, whereupon 5) the cellulite freak abruptly departs and 6) a sadder but psychologically thinner Lynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Taking It Off | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Sierra Gothic. The mountaineer-geologist Clarence King found in the Sierras elaborate analogies to the Gothic −an organic interchange between nature and art. On the other hand, a group of Americans spent five days in 1853 cutting down a 3,000-year-old sequoia, 302 ft. high and 96 ft. in circumference. They polished the stump into a dance floor and hollowed out the fallen trunk to make a bowling alley. The sacred and profane commingled, usually at the expense of the sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: West of the Sun | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

Harvard's astronaut-geologist came to town to talk about moon rocks and the earth, and the Bulletin was there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Bulletin: A June sampler | 6/13/1973 | See Source »

Astronaut Geologist Dr. Harrison Schmitt seems to have learned something about memory as well as about the moon when he took his lunar stroll last year: "My moon walk was so brief that few impressions were implanted in my mind. Every now and again I start to tell somebody about something I saw on the moon, and I realize I'm telling about something I saw in a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 28, 1973 | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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