Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon (a coke joke). While Studio 54 is fast, loud and frenzied, the month-old New York New York (membership $150) is cool and comparatively low decibel. Borrowing from the Hay den Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color...
...pioneered the development of the Redstone, which carried America's first astronaut aloft in 1961. Most important, he designed and developed the huge Saturn 5 rocket, which opened a new era of space exploration in 1969 when it carried the Apollo 11 astronauts to the surface of the moon. "Wernher von Braun's name was inextricably linked to our exploration of space," said President Carter. "Not just the people of our nation, but all the people of the world have profited from his work...
...agreement on a number of the so-called secondary issues (TIME, May 23). Then Vance and Gromyko deliberately launched their own talks on an upbeat note by signing an extension of a treaty to cooperate in space science and medicine and to exchange data on missions to the moon. The two men even tried to foster cordiality by a little banter in the presence of newsmen. As lightning flashed among the Alpine peaks across Lake Geneva, Vance said to Gromyko: "Did you hear those thunderbolts? I was throwing them at you." Gromyko chuckled gamely...
...used what is called composite opticals: he would put one -part of a scene-a spaceship, say -on film and black out the background. Then he would cover over the spaceship, roll the film through the camera again and put in another part of the scene, such as the moon behind the spaceship. And so on. This process of multiple exposure was not only enormously expensive and time consuming, but also limited in what it could achieve...
...beaches than to consider the realities of a life without money or opportunity, a life in which dreams are consistently stifled by a miserable reality. Yet it is precisely because it does not take this easy way out that the Leverett Arts Society's production of Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is so impressive. Without falling into bathos, the actors present a life far different from their own, forcing the audience to consider the small, human tragedies of a very different world...