Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he heard that Luna 7 had successfully fired its braking retrorockets and had transmitted signals for three seconds after hitting the moon, Barringer became convinced that the craft was not demolished upon impact. The tardy retrorocket firing that probably made the difference between success and failure, Barringer decided, could have been caused by an altimeter error of as little as 30 ft. - which some scientists believe is the approximate depth of a layer of porous rock or partially compacted dust that covers the moon. Barringer's conclusion: Russian radar penetrated the moon's top layer, reflected back...
...felt that the decision had had no simple, direct effect on the American party structure. "The impact on parties is a speculative matter and varied from case to case," he stated. The reapportionment case had originally been taken up by a Republican solicitor general, Lee Rankin, before it was presented under a Democratic administration, he reminded his audience...
...write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn't work." How about changing the locale to Hollywood, with...
...writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer's Eve-were charmingly melodic, but the overall impact was blandly uncompelling. The sets, which Rorem confesses he "hates," were gingerbread concoctions totally antithetical to the spirit of the opera, and Soprano Marguerite Willauer in the title role sang with the handicap of a severe cold...
...that Nicole's profile is set against the slightly unfocused background of the Paris skyline. You receive both the sense of her sudden openness and his response of partial dizziness. When Pierre looks down from the edge of the terrace as Nicole drives away in a cab, the impact of their separation becomes terribly intense...