Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down-to-earth though he may appear on television, Frank Perdue is no bumpkin. He wears Gucci loafers and drives a blue Mercedes, lives in a condominium in Ocean City, Md. (he and his wife recently separated) and plays a plucky game of tennis when he can. Offscreen, he is even beginning to talk like an adman. He professes no fear of other firms that are beginning to emulate him by advertising brand-name chickens-because, he says, "nothing puts a bad product out of business faster than good advertising...
Kelvin pauses. Something has obviously gone wrong aboard the space lab Solaris. Russian scientist had set up the lab to study a body of liquid on another planet--a thick, oozing, brain-colored expanse called the ocean Solaris. The project began with over 80 experts. Over 80 experts had since left: escaped back to Earth or died...
...after something we fear and which we do not ask for," he tells Kelvin. "Man needs man." Here is the key. Solaris has not been dealing with space travel at all, but with man's emprisonment inside his own conscience, his own memories, his ties to the past. The ocean Solaris, Kelvin begins to understand, draws men's dreams from their subconscious during the night and makes them materialize, not in flesh and blood but in "neutrinos," an indestructible substance that renders the apparitions immortal. Hence the "guests"--they are dreams brought to life. No wonder the ocean looks grey...
...feet, head buried in his lap, one of those poignant Bergmanesque poses. The camera begins to pull up and up, above the house, the trees, the adjacent lake, until we see the entire island surrounding the house, sitting--you guessed it--in the middle of the cranium-colored ocean Solaris...
...determine if its energy output is constant and if there is any link between sunspots (caused by magnetic storms on the sun's surface) and droughts, which often occur every other time the eleven-year cycle of sunspots reaches its low point. Other investigations-of ocean and atmospheric circulation, the processes of mountain building, the influence of land masses-are all pointed toward a better understanding of global climate. That understanding is sorely needed. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," says a report published last year by the National...