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The illusion of standing on the Martian plain became even more vivid when scientists produced a color picture that confirmed the appropriateness of Mars' longtime sobriquet of Red Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Mars: The Riddle of the Red Planet | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Unkind Cut. "Underneath the imitation-oak-grained formica veneer is solid oak, beneath that phony image of character is character," writes Safire. But what is the nature of that character? He never succeeds in defining it. Perhaps there never was anything cohesive in Nixon's character. Perhaps Safire is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shifty Defense | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

The Bruces are indeed paragons of piscine verisimilitude. Their gray and white polyurethane skin, sprayed with a fine-grained silica, is authentically sandpapery enough to be the envy of all the lady sharks at sea. Their eyes dart frighteningly, then-great tails are fully articulated, and their three-way stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Introducing Bruce | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

Stately, plump...gurgling face...equine in its length...hair, grained and hued like pale oak...shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate...great searching eyes...hollow beneath his underlip...curling shaven lips...white glittering teeth...Cranly's arm. His arm.

Author: By Lawton F. Grant, | Title: Celluloid Monarch Notes | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

Cernan also had reason to be embarrassed. With one swing of his geological hammer, he accidentally clobbered the $13,000,000 moon car, knocking off part of one of its rear fiberglass fenders, which act as shields against the spray of dust churned up by the rover's wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Apollo 17: A Grand Finale | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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