Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television's shining moments seem to come when it shoots for the moon. During their ten-day coverage of the Apollo 12 mission, the networks plan to relay live color television of the astronauts' moon walk, which is set for Wednesday, Nov. 19. Lift-off is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 14, at 11:22 a.m., and will be covered live by all networks...
...exploratory tradition, the Apollo 11 astronauts planted the American flag on the moon during their epic visit last July. The Apollo 12 astronauts, who are due to lift off this week, will do the same. The gesture will soon become more than a matter of tradition. Last week, when the Senate approved the $3.7 billion space authorization bill for 1970, congressional chauvinists had the final word. The bill orders U.S. astronauts to raise the flag as one of their initial acts on reaching firma beyond terra...
...song in the original entitled "Croon-Spoon" becomes "Moon. . ." Director Leonard Lehrman sacrifices a certain amount of cohesiveness in trying to tell us that the play hasn't lost its relevance. The moon reference puts a date on a play which shouldn't be dated...
...Graham Bell? Durward Kirby? Well. whoever he was. he would probably insist that Take Me Along, this fall's Agassiz musical, is as American as apple pie. The show has all the credentials: a fourth-of-July setting, young lovers making a marriage pact under a full New England moon, parades, red-white-and-blue razzmatazz, you name it. But despite all that, don't be tricked: Take Me Along is as American as Jack Daniels booze-and all the better...
...Grillet. On one level, this yields an engaging parody of the Victorian novel-with chatty narrator, digressions, subplots involving cockney servants and narrative juggling. The technique also enables Fowles to compensate for some of the Victorian novel's omissions and evasions, particularly that dark side of the Victorian moon, the bedroom...