Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH Tonight: Kameraduchaft, by Pabst, and three by Melies: Jupiter's Thunderbolts, The Magic Lantern and The Mermaid, 7:30 p.m., 31 Sunday, "Critical Mass" by Hollis Frampton and The Miracle by Roberto Rossellini...
Almost as long as there have been scientists, man has been trying to measure the speed of light. In 1638, Galileo stationed a brace of lantern bearers on hilltops and tried to time their flashes-with no luck at all. Since then, Danes, Frenchmen and Americans have succeeded in narrowing down the figure to generally accepted modern-day figures, but the search for greater precision still goes...
Underneath the lantern, by the barracks gate...
...certainly being found guilty this week, faces the same fate, barring a commutation of his sentence by the Israeli Chief of Staff, General David Elazar, or clemency from President Zalman Shazar. Unlike Eichmann, who to the very end denied personal responsibility for the genocide of European Jews, the effusive, lantern-jawed Okamoto positively gloried in his actions. "Revolutionary warfare is a war of justice," he told the court in an excitable singsong baritone that had to be cut off frequently to allow translation into Hebrew and English. "And so I admit very frankly what I have done." The revolution will...
...mentioned. First, Superman has decided to keep his superpowers to aid mankind; Wonder Woman has lost her powers and is now simply Diana Prince ("She's still dynamite in a fight"); Robin is in college, while his partner Batman ("the creature of the night") fights crime alone. Green Lantern, who now has a black substitute, has won the best-individual-story and best-continuing-feature awards given by the Academy of Comic Book Arts...