Word: meshes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical virtuosity receives ample display, the buzkashi alone is thunderously exciting and imparts a startling sense of participation. But he has tried to do too much. Besides his obsession with courage, he obviously also wanted to say something about greed, honor and duty, but the themes never mesh. Dal ton Trumbo's screenplay and his fake Arabian Nights dialogue do nothing to help. There is much talk of "the coolness of my shop" and characters greet each other with such fulsome salutations as "Peace on you, O master of the stables." Miss Taylor-Young bolts across the Panavision screen...
With a tug on a cable, the $12.9 million lunar rover folded slowly out of Falcon's side. Its hollow, wire-mesh wheels snapped into place, and the moon car was lowered to the ground. Like most earthly vehicles the rover had a problem: the front-wheel steering did not work. Nonetheless, a 25-yard test drive showed that it was ready to go with its back wheels steering. After a motherly reminder from Mission Control ("Okay, Dave, remember to buckle up for safety"), the astronauts clambered aboard, strapped themselves into place, pushed the control stick forward and moved...
...mime-laden choreography is ably danced by the ABT soloists. The Juliet of the premiere was Italy's Carla Fracci, whose gentle, girlish way of evoking youthful passion is complemented by the stiff, manly Romeo of Ivan Nagy. If their individual dancing styles do not always mesh, Tudor nonetheless is still able to make disunity work for, not against, the production...
...film is based on a LIFE series by James Mills. Its fictional framework does not mesh well with its documentary approach. The screenplay, by Novelist Joan Didion and her husband, Journalist John Gregory Dunne, is disappointing; it never explains enough about the main characters. When a resolutely middle-class girl from Indiana winds up in New York turning tricks for smack, there should be more behind it than the mere suggestion of a repressive family situation. Of Bobby we know still less...
...model of efficiency, if not Daytona-like speed (maximum: 10 m.p.h.). The battery-powered car should be able to cross crevasses as wide as 28 in., clamber up and down slopes of 25° and travel up to 40 miles. Each of its four wide-track, wire-mesh wheels is driven by its own gears and a i-h.p. electric motor. In case one motor fails, it can be cut out of the power system and the vehicle can push on-if necessary on the power of only two motors...