Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reconnoitering cloud-covered Venus with eight separate unmanned spacecraft-three American and five Russian, including two Soviet landing vehicles-scientists are now certain that De Fontenelle's Eden is, in fact, more like Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size...
...recent years dozens of bootleggers have been collecting up to $500 million annually that should have gone to major studios in legitimate film rentals. The pirates have also become increasingly brazen. While the $14 million disaster thriller Towering Inferno was still in production last year, a San Diego movie theater was showing a 90-minute pirated version put together from prints of individual scenes (the full movie takes 165 minutes to play). On a recent visit to Tel Aviv, two associates of Sam Arkoff, chairman of American International Pictures, to their amazement spotted his film, The Masque...
This is the toughest, bawdiest town in America ... By night it has a certain inferno-like magnificence. By day it is one of the ugliest places I have ever seen...
...artists and rock groups: The Graduate by Simon and Garfunkel, Easy Rider by The Band, Steppenwolf, etc. Today, directors want a more symphonic approach. The Jaws theme is played by a 75-piece orchestra. Disaster films have enhanced the value of lush orchestral work. "Imagine," says Newman, "The Towering Inferno, for instance, raging to the obbligato of a Fender bass and a wah-wah guitar...
While movies like Towering Inferno, Tidal Wave and Earthquake were mesmerizing audiences of disaster buffs over the past year, Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who writes our Science section, were carefully following a series of little-noticed events and discoveries that are leading scientists closer to achieving a critical breakthrough: the ability to predict, and possibly even control, earthquakes. Golden, who wrote this week's cover package and Jaroff, who edited it, have both been keeping tab on seismological research for several years. "We'd covered each advance piecemeal," Jaroff says. "Finally," he adds...