Word: re-enactment
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...section. Dressed in a special pressure suit rigged with weights and floats that enable him to remain buoyant at a specific level underwater, Aldrin has spent hours practicing his EVA assignments under conditions that approximate but do not exactly duplicate weightlessness. Astronaut Cernan has also used the pool to re-enact his Gemini 9 experiences...
...police, on the other hand, presented a painstaking and cohesive case. The 1957 Buick they claimed had led them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull...
...mistress of ceremonies, played by Blyth Danner, announces that three hobos will re-enact the scene in which they discovered and buried the body of Joseph Axminster, another vagabond, so that his two friends in the audience will know what became of him. She also announces that the back of the stage--bare except for a crate that becomes Axminster's coffin and some stools--is the municipal garbage dump and that off to the right is a jail. Her best acting is done later in the show when she play's Axminster's dead body...
...Civil War and one interested in helping to make the sacrifices of our forefathers meaningful to the general public, and as one who believes our heritage belongs to all the people and not just to the long-faced historian, I with my sons have participated in battle re-enactments over the past four years [April 16]. Vicarious though the experience may have been, we can begin to appreciate what Bruce Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive...
...President Eisenhower. With $100,000 a year to spend, the commission wrote up plans to give historical dignity to a succession of battle anniversaries. But dignity all too often went down the drain. Practically from the outset, Civil War buffs wearing uniforms and carrying old muskets set out to re-enact alt the war's major battles. At Bull Run, in July 1961, 70,000 spectators cheered more than 2,000 men and boys as they replayed the battle, charging across the battlefield, shooting blanks, and falling off their horses. Casualties at 1961's Bull Run: 185 cases...