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...from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes of Fujiyama. Halfway up, the solid earth gives way to an airy, translucent blister. Made of vinyl-coated fiber glass, this roof is laced by restraining cables and is supported entirely by a cushion of compressed...
Despite the brief blackout, the spacecraft hurtled into a nearly perfect 118-mile-high earth orbit. By testing the spacecraft's navigational and guidance computers, the astronauts confirmed that the instruments had been left unscathed by the power surge. Halfway through the second revolution, after ground controllers were assured that Apollo was in perfect shape, Conrad fired the third stage S-4B rocket. The 51-minute burn increased the spacecraft's speed to 24,100 m.p.h., lifted it from orbit and sent it on its way to the moon. Said Conrad: "Everything is tickety...
...Dulong of Holy Cross. the preface favorite, was striding comfortably with a 30-yard lead halfway through the course, with Colburn and Villanova's Don Walsh second and third. Walsh then moved by the Crimson captain and ran a distant second the rest of the race. Dulong's winning time was 24:06-8, two seconds slower than the record he set two years...
...early pace on the soggy course was slow and about four Harvard runners were out front with Piazza and Princeton's Eamon Downey. Halfway through the race. Colburn and Piazza were running shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Koerner and Pottetti close behind...
...unattractive. And because of that, I Am Curious, Yellow and Oh Calcutta! are Antarctic and anti-sexual. But on the other hand, what is on the stage must be one step away from reality, and that one step is what separates art from life. We want something halfway between reality and fantasy. And thus when the first real stage fuck happens, you will not be seeing art. Implied in art is aesthetic distance...