Word: orb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stable period in the evolution of the star−a combination of adolescence and middle age that constitutes 99% of the lifespan of a sun-size star. During this period, the tremendous energy radiating from the star's center neutralizes its gravitational force, and the great glowing orb shrinks no further. But as it must to all stars, death eventually comes. How long a star lives depends on its mass. Generally, the more massive a star is, the shorter its life is. Stars with a mass significantly greater than that of the sun burn their fuel in a profligate...
...Easy Rider?") with the empress's ladies--and gentlemen-in-waiting. A robot sputters on stage: can a machine be even more black than the preceding parade of frenetic suitors? At the end Phylissa stares with one eye down an inverted clarion; with the other becoming a wild, monstrous orb she eclipses the entire stage. The stage blacks out. The image of that disembodied eye stays with you, as does the memory of men cut from themselves...
...Take the machines, for instance, an old Allen theme built into the setting of this movie. Mechanical objects always hated Woody Allen; it was as if they had a conspiracy against him. In 2173 the health food refugee is in a world full of machines--robot domestic servants, the "Orb" for getting high, a contraption called the Orgasmatron which looks like a hot water heater and supplies instant climax when you climb in ("I'm strictly a hand operation," Allen protests). The machines give Allen a lot of trouble, as usual, but in the end he makes the computers look...
...root, the insecure child of a frustrated, demanding father, he lacked the confidence and grace that would have eliminated the need for the yes-men who formed what was always more his court than his kingdom. Finally and most damagingly of all, his grasp of the world beyond the orb of the Southern black middle class was imperfect to the point of terminal misconstruction. Thus as Williams quotes Joanne Grant, a black reporter who covered King closely, "It was very important that he should make the decisions, and yet he really couldn...