Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crosstown rival U.S.C. In fact, the top-ranked Bruins are so steeped in talent that their bench warmers may well be the No. 2 team in the nation. Asked if there is any way to stop Wooden, Oklahoma City Coach Abe Lemons said: "Wait, and some night when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, drive a silver stake into his heart. He is unreal...
...Reason: they had discovered an occasional irregularity in the rhythm of his heartbeat. The bitterly disappointed Slayton subsequently became chief of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center and played a key role in picking all future space crews, including the first men to land on the moon. But even as he sent other astronauts to the launch pad, he never stopped dreaming of making the trip into space himself...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the film directed by Paul Newman adapted from Paul Zindel's play, takes a typically fifties subject--a middle-aged widow trapped in a ghetto of emotional frustration--and dresses it up in typically fifties sentiment. The movie is a plea for the Blanche du Bois and Amandas of the world, victims of rat-racing commercial America. The American Theater has wallowed under a deluge of such stuff for 20 years; the dialogue sounds like a rerun William Inge or Tennessee Williams, and the movie watches like a Blue Monday...
...Beatrice's best intentions fall flat. Mathilde has won a science contest for her experiment with man-in-the-moon marigolds, and Beatrice is to appear on the stage with her at the award ceremony. But it is not until the audience is dispersing that Beatrice staggers in. Drunk, dressed like a hallucination out of the thirties, she makes a grand entrance, first paralyzing, then galling the entire assembly. Watery-eyed she chokes, "Mathilde, my heart is full," and her daughter winces in shame...
Even funnier is Ohrberg's "Outhouse Car." A privy on wheels, "The Outhouse Car" has an honest-to-goodness back home outhouse roof. A half-moon back window and a roll of toilet paper between the seats add to the work's mock authenticity. The exterior, almost entirely knotted pine, completes Ohrberg's Pop art statement...