Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mummy case. Back in camp his wife (Jill Townsend) goes into labor-two months early. A mysteriously difficult birth ensues. No one needs a translation of the hieroglyphics in the burial place to know what is happening-the soul of the royal personage is reversing the usual journey, moving from tomb to womb...
Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering...
...they had a life of their own. So large did Saturn loom in the robot's probing electronic eyes that they could capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed by the paths of planets orbiting the sun - and headed...
...From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours," he wrote, "having such tedious winters...
With the thinnest of plots -- a man's journey back through time to find a woman he once loved, in another life, in 1912 -- and the most threadbare characterizations, Somewhere in Time is nevertheless sweetly romantic, a lovely, pleasant but unchallenging diversion. These virtues are almost solely attributable to the two gorgeous stars; when their faces are in closeup (especially for one slow erotic kiss) it doesn't matter so much that the movie makes little sense. Reeve and Seymour's faces make a lot of sense. Reeve, the once and future Superman, is blessed with a handsome, intelligent face...