Word: martianize
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Dressed in pure Martian style, British Rock Singer David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars packed in 6,000 in two nights at a marijuana-smoke-filled Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Bowie landed onstage in a contraption that looked like an overgrown Christmas tree ornament, and he seemed to have attracted an audience every bit as spaced-out as himself. Showers of valentines with little love messages poured down from the upper balconies, while Bowie and the Martian Spiders blasted their songs with such supersonic zeal that even the squeals from the audience were drowned...
...hopes that Martian-born humans will benefit from our lessons on earth and take better care of their planet...
From the time it began sending back its remarkably clear pictures of Mars a year ago, Mariner 9 has made one startling discovery after another. Across millions of miles of space, it has transmitted shots of Martian volcanoes that may still be active, curious winding channels that could have been carved by torrents of water, possible tracks left by glaciers, sands whipped by winds of hundreds of miles an hour and other tantalizing features that point to previously unsuspected geological, chemical and perhaps biological processes on the red planet. Indeed, the flight of the windmill-shaped spacecraft drastically changed...
...four children in the seven years since her husband Arthur was captured. During the long captivity, the commonplaces of life have changed?there are easier abortion laws, widespread color television, the success of Hair, and Spiro Agnew has become a household word. "It will almost be like a Martian dropping in," says Mrs. Cormier. "I don't know how he's going to feel. Who helps me if he starts crying or screaming...
...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...