Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Popovich said that Nikolayev's capsule "looked like a very small moon in the distance." Vision was so clear aloft, added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water...
...work. The celebrated 25-hour week won by New York construction electricians this year (TIME, Jan. 26) works out in practice as 25 hours at straight-time pay and five or ten hours on overtime. Other unions that have got a short week complain that it inspires workers to "moonlight" by seeking out second jobs, thus actually cuts down work opportunities. A widespread adoption of a 35-hour week with 40 hours' pay-which is Meany's ultimate aim-might even oblige managers to spend more for automation. It would therefore do little in the long...
...Since Moonlight came out last February, it has sold a phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...
Between fares, Driver Perrin pasted together some lyrics−"I've "traveled the world, I know the universe/ I've rolled in luxury, and I've rolled my r's/ And I say, no-no, no, no, no . . . All that's not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge"-and put them to music. At first, hearing the song, the Maubeugeois felt insulted, but as crowds of the curious began to visit the town, shopkeepers and bistro owners changed their tune. Crescent-shaped lights were strung over the streets; shop windows were filled with moon-shaped cookies...