Word: looke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character named Lorraine Sheldon swirled onstage in the second act of The Man Who Came to Dinner, gaudy in mink, black satin, and black mesh stockings. "Sherry, my sweet," cooed Lorraine to the bewhiskered leading man. "Oh, darling! Look at that poor, sweet, tortured face! Let me kiss it." After that entrance it was hard to believe the program. The seductively feline manner and the shapely, shaved legs (badly nicked by a dressing-room razor) of Lorraine Sheldon belonged to an actor named T. (for Thomas) C. (for Craig) Jones...
Where Author Vian's views might lie between these two extremes, no one will ever know. He attended a preview of The Spitter, took one look at his fantastic Trenton, and slumped in his seat. At 39, Boris Vian was dead of a heart attack...
...were foiled by clouds, but many reported clear skies. The films, tapes and other records that they made do not look like much, but with careful analysis in the next few months a better picture of the Venusian atmosphere will be assembled. When the first space traveler from earth attempts to explore Venus, he will know much about what to expect, and for that he can thank winking Regulus so many trillion miles away...
...inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...
...eyes, a diamond painted on the forehead, a mouth set in a wide led smile. His brother, Balabhadra, is 7 ft. tall, with a white face, a rounded skull and oval eyes; sister Subhadra is only 5 ft. high, with a yellow, pinched face that gives her a hungry look. Making a new set of idols to replace the worn-out trio at least once every 25 years is a tricky business. First a neem tree must be found, in which no bird is nesting, and on which no other tree has cast a shadow. It must be marked beneath...