Word: intrinsice
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With its tried & true basic plot, Split Second was bound to work up a certain amount of grim suspense. In addition, Stephen McNally's characterization of the convict is a snarlingly powerful one. But much of the movie's intrinsic excitement is lost in its over-plotting and...
The only vernacular piece in the collection is an anonymous Italian laude, O Maria, Diam Stella, a work more notable for its reverent dignity than for any intrinsic musical merit. After a rather sluggish rendition of Lassus' Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria comes victoria's beautiful Miserere Mei. The Glee club...
Dr. Shapley was especially concerned since he had much to do with setting up the Cepheids as reliable measuring sticks. After long consultations with other astronomers, he decided that the size of the whole universe must be doubled. If the remote galaxies are considered twice as far away, then their...
All this, I suppose, could be given a boff treatment. Indeed there are a few pratfalls, just enough to provide a little variety. But there is no frantic chase after gags; the characters are consistent with themselves and with their background. The humor is scrupulously confined to the intrinsic.
Instead, astronomers at Harvard and at Mt. Palomar, gathering evidence with "ordinary" telescopes and re-analyzing old data have shown that classical Cepheid variable star are actually brighter than had been assumed. Knowing the absolute or intrinsic brightness of these particular stars, and from their apparent brightness, astronomers can determine...