Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shall we send moon stations to outer space or repair our cities...
Through its sophisticated and expensive techniques, television has forged a football game into the nation's single largest shared experience (except for electing a President or watching American astronauts walk on the moon). The Super Bowl has made other contributions to the culture too, footnotes not to be lost. In 1967, The Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke...
...picture is about impending rape, a common subject, but unique in being perceived from the woman's eyeline. Heavily influenced by Caravaggio, Gentileschi's paintings were determinedly "unfeminine," full of darkness, gore and gesticulation: witness the candlelit hand and shadowed face of Judith, like a waning moon, in Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (circa 1625). A few other late-Renaissance women, like Sofonisba Anguissola, got more commissions than the forthright Artemisia; they moved with more ease at court and could play society better. But there is good reason to regard Artemisia Gentileschi as the most...
...from the top of a Christmas tree, remains the emblem of hope. "It is not difficult to understand why a star was chosen as a symbol to mark the birth of Christ," muses Astrophysicist Jesse Greenstein of the California Institute of Technology. "Stars are more mysterious and remote than moon or sun gods. At the time of Christ, people all over the world considered them important...
...defection was arranged with the help of Julie Moon, 46, operator of the Washington-based U.S.-Asian News Service, which supplies news to publications in the U.S. and Japan. She gained asylum in the U.S. in 1973 after Seoul, irked by her criticism of the Park Chung Hee government, ordered her home. After learning last month that Kim faced punishment in South Korea, she asked Justice Department officials to grant him asylum. He phoned the FBI on Thanksgiving Day and was promptly whisked to a "safe house" outside the capital, while agents guarded his wife and three children at their...