Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although public interest in space has waned sharply since the moon landings, the U.S. is now engaged in perhaps the most ambitious exploration of the solar system since the start of the space age. At Cape Canaveral, NASA last week was preparing for the launch of the Skylab 3 mission, which may become the longest manned space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus...
...extra food: beverages, catsup and several hundred little high-nutrition food bars (flavors: chocolate, vanilla and raspberry). If all goes well, NASA officials think that the mission could lead to the establishment of permanent space stations-and eventually to their use as launch pads for manned trips to the moon and the planets...
...test tube; half a husband--a house half full of rabbit crap--and half a corpse! That's what I call a half-life, Matilda! Me and cobalt-60." In sarcasm and desperation, Beatrice, the heroine of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, screams at her indrawn daughter. At first glance, I wanted to add that Ron Melrose's production at the Loeb Ex is, sequentially, half a show. But that's too easy, too pat. This production has too much in it that borders on superb...
Zindel's written a strong script that fights any attempt to butcher it. His man-in-the-moon marigolds are the subject of an award-winning science project built by Tillie, Beatrice's half-test tube. In the life that Beatrice leads in an old vegetable store with her daughters, the other an epileptic, and a senile, decayed nanny, the marigolds, for the first time, make her proud. Zindel skillfully draws a portrait of Beatrice's shattered life, of epileptic Ruth's rebellion and Tillie's strength in her world of scientific experiments--and the tightrope walk of their dependence...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, by Paul Zindel, is about how a misunderstood high school girl wins adulation and new self-respect by doing a science project even though her mother is crazy, but it's a good play anyway. Lots of high drama and tension and funny lines and that stuff. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as always, but it doesn't hurt to pick them up in advance...