Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widely back and forth in stomach-churning arcs as it was lifted to the helicopter. Astronaut Schweickart, the next passenger, was splashed through the water on the first swing of the sling. Astronaut McDivitt was forced to take refuge on the flotation collar when the wind flipped over his raft. McDivitt got a thorough soaking and dizzying spin before he was lifted safely aboard the helicopter. Although the astronauts were probably never in real danger, the recovery provided exciting counterpoint to Apollo 9's final days of routine space flight...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's magnificent farce, Some Like It Hot (1959), stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as innocents of the '20s chased by Chicago Mobster George Raft and Florida Millionaire Joe E. Brown...
...Battle of Guadalcanal. Bereft of conventional weapons, the pair have at each other with sticks, fire, traps and maledictions. To no avail. Predictably, the hunters learn that they cannot survive without their quarries. Without speaking a word of each other's language, the odd couple eventually construct a raft and go off in search of rescuers. Stranded again on a different island, they find no one, and wander offscreen...
Galileo's 17th century use of the telescope to study the heavens spawned a host of moon stories. The Man in the Moone, written by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandoff, and published in 1638, offered a hero who was carried to his destination on a frail raft pulled by swans. Unaware of the vacuum in space, the traveler had no difficulty breathing on the trip, but he did find that his weight lessened as he left the earth. That remarkable scientific insight by Godwin preceded Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity by many years...
...ever takes as many chances as they do in their first film, but mostly because the movies that represent the current professional product in America take no chances at all. Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By... recalls that Ramon Novarro and Frank Currier doing the raft scene in Ben-Hur (1926) exposed themselves for three days to freezing winds and icy water at four hour stretches, narrowly avoiding pneumonia. But, when Wyler remade Ben-Hur in 1959 when technical proficiency could have compensated for weather variables, the scene was poorly synthesized in the studio with absurd process photography...