Word: mooned
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Think for a minute of some of the things that have happened since June 17, 1969, when Oh! Calcutta! opened to almost universal boos from the critics: the first moon landing, Watergate, gas shortages and surpluses, the breakup of the Beatles and AT&T, the demise of miniskirts, the birth and death of the yuppie, Rocky I, II, III and IV. A changing world, you might say, and shake your graying head. But calm down. There is some stability. In Manhattan and São Paulo, audiences are still paying to see Oh! Calcutta! and watch eight actors and actresses take...
...with the Nature Conservancy, has seen the cranes many times, but at day's end, peering through the torn burlap curtain of a small wooden blind, he marvels anew at the squadrons of cranes landing in the Platte like parachutists dropping from the sky. Dark descends, and a full moon magically rises, throwing a broad moon-beam across both river and cranes. "What's the fascination?" Sublett murmurs. With the cries of the cranes filling the air, he answers his own question. "I guess it's that they've been coming here for millenniums, and they're still coming here...
DIED. Otto Ludwig Preminger, 80, tyrannical Austrian-born producer and director who derived his greatest cinematic satisfactions--and some of his biggest successes--by flouting film-industry conventions, taboos and the studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City...
...Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk...
...foreboding that I learned that one of them, Deke Slayton, wants to use the vastness of the universe for his own gain by arranging burials in space [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Sept. 29]. To have the ashes of dead people floating in the heavens, and to look at the stars and moon through their remains, does not seem right. A public outcry should stop this outrage before it happens. Pamela Sharp Albuquerque Television Trends...