Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though they can develop enormous thrust, they are voracious consumers of fuel. In only nine minutes, the Saturn 5 moon rockets burned up 3,000 tons of liquid fuel. With such propellants, even larger rockets and exorbitant amounts of fuel would be needed to rendezvous with fast- moving objects like comets, which travel at 198,000 km (124,000 miles) per hour in the vicinity...
...engine is far more economical. With electricity generated by solar panels, it strips electrons off the atoms of vaporized mercury passing through a coffee-can-like chamber, converting them to ions. Expelled at high speeds in a focused beam, the charged particles act like a rocket exhaust, propelling the craft forward. Though its thrust is minuscule and far too feeble to lift payloads from the earth, the ion engine performs efficiently in the vacuum of space. It can function for years because it draws on solar energy and uses fuel sparingly. It can be stopped and restarted countless times...
...nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like thunderbolts...
Revivalitis is symptomatic of anemic creative initiative, always exempting Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim. The response of playgoers is credited to nostalgia. Sheer escapism seems more like...
Gita Mehta's witty documentary satire illustrates that the cost can be considerably higher. This is especially true for the thousands of Europeans and Americans who have flocked to the Indian subcontinent in search of enlightenment, cheap dope and, like the Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus...