Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Oppenheimer and his brainy cohort at Los Alamos, N. Mex. In Rhodes' comprehensive view, the blinding flash of that achievement climaxes decades of brilliant ideas, technological innovations and the contributions of incandescent personalities. "Had astronomers been watching," he writes, "they could have seen ((the explosion)) reflected from the moon, literal moonshine." But moments after the artificial sunburst, witnesses became awed captives of their immediate surroundings: "The horses in the MP stable still whinnied in fright; the paddles of the dusty Aermotor windmill at Base Camp still spun away the energy of the blast; the frogs had ceased to make...
...daytime; its appearance was noted not only by the Chinese and Japanese but possibly also by Indians in the American Southwest. The New World evidence comes in the form of images carved and painted on rock walls in northern Arizona showing a celestial object adjacent to a crescent moon. There is no proof that this primitive artwork represents the supernova, but archaeological dating techniques show the Indians were in the area when the star flared, and astronomers have calculated that the supernova indeed appeared in the sky very close to the crescent moon...
Among the other businesses that have been threatened by rumors are Proctor & Gamble (the notion that the company's moon-and-stars symbol was related to Satanism), a Belgian beer that had to ride out a phony report that it caused impotence, and France's margarine industry, the victim of gossip that the lower-price spread was full of dangerous contaminants. Kapferer thinks French housewives got behind the margarine rumor as an excuse to keep buying butter. One margarine company fought back with an ad slogan describing the story as the "rumor that costs you dearly...
Appetizers, dey ain't got much variety. Dey Cay-john popcorn made with shrimp, not crawfish. Dat ain't no good! Who ever heard o' dat? Gotta have mudpuppies to call it Cay-john popcorn! Anyt'ing else, where you from, de moon...
...long last, something worthwhile might actually be done. Pondering the diverse sources and remarkably similar conclusions of a clutch of recent proposals, Senator Moynihan, a New York Democrat and lifelong student of the welfare system, finds in them a social analogue to a "rare alignment of the sun, the moon and the earth that causes all manner of natural wonders...