Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself from 195 lbs. down to a flat-bellied 168. To train himself to handle a capsule tumbling out of control through space, Glenn spent hours spinning giddily in the fiendishly contrived "Mastif" (multiple axis space test inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week, Glenn's pulse rate was a relatively placid no beats...
...greatest obstacle to their success. Their Turn Toward Peace, like any political movement, mixes the visionary and the practical in such portions that even in an historical perspective it may be impossible to say whether they succeeded or failed. Yet it is a fact of politics that individual hopes ride on expedient fusions like this peace march; one must delve into its complex purposes and distinguish the dominant from the variant and the deviant in order to say yea or nay with more than prejudice...
...officers, and shattered pianos. Groucho is cast as a horse doctor in disguise, Harpo as a jockey, and Chico as an ice cream vendor, but all this is merely an excuse for them to get together and start wrecking the place. It is a foregone conclusion that Harpo will ride the horse to victory and save the sanatorium of which Groucho has become chief of staff...
Everyone from a canorous finch to a detestitute soldier sings on the ride from Venice to Padua, and an extraordinary passenger list it must have been to supply twenty madrigals on a thirty mile trip. Even more extraordinary was the representation that the two women and four men in the sextet gave of characters in the boat. As Venetian fishermen, they echoed each other with subtle dynamic control. Director and basso Piero Cavalli led one texture smoothly into another. A Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple...
...composition of his landscapes is brilliant; but the landscape is so clogged with color that it becomes airless, a kind of prison. In the figure paintings, his creatures are chalky, emaciated scarecrows that stare out from cruel masklike faces. They accuse, torture, mock; they crouch on each others shoulders, ride each other's naked backs. To a large extent, the theme of Jan Müller's work is humanity devouring itself...