Word: haydens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great dark vault beneath the dome of New York City's Hayden Planetarium is thick with silence. Schoolchildren who a moment ago were babbling and twitching like a flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony hemisphere above them gleams with fire: the planets, their satellites and some 4,000 stars begin marching across the heavens toward day break. The audience sucks in its breath. A child grabs the arm of the teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that...
...star of stars, a broad tail of light drops from the sky through the rough timbers of the broken-down stable. It illuminates Mary and the Babe. A child in the audience slides out of her chair and drops to her knees. The lights go up, and the Hayden Planetarium's 44th annual holiday show is over...
Mark Chartrand, the owlish chairman of the Hayden Planetarium, is happy to unmask the manipulative strings attached to this particular wizard, a machine resembling a fat steel dumbbell, a monster with 9,000 eyes that moves eerily above the darkened floor of the planetarium. Explains Chartrand: "The machine moves the sun across the sky and accurately reproduces the movements both of the stars and the planets. In a sense it is a machine that can virtually take you any place in any time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing...
...after the first half-hour the movie documentary detail thins out, and the film gets mired in a conventional drama of generational conflict. Sterling Hayden, as the aging king (of New York and eastern Pennsylvania), wishes to pass over his violent and ne'er-do-well son (Judd Hirsch) and grant his title to his grandson Dave (Eric Roberts). This young man is more interested in joining the American mainstream than he is in defending the traditional way of life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave...
...Hayden, co-founder of SDS and veteran of the '60s, tells a story about his chat with Jimmy Carter last year. Hayden had five minutes with Carter, and what with the picture taking, there wasn't much time for hardnosed rapping. But finally Hayden felt the urge, tilted his head over at Carter, pointed his "steely brown eyes" straight at him, and said, "You know, you don't have as much power as some heads of giant corporations, who are unelected and unaccountable to the public...