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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Frank Herbert wrote Dune: the sci-fi world is still recovering from that one. Men reading Dune tend to forget who they are: coming out of it. I felt like Rip Van Winkle after a twenty-year dream. Herbert's universe is rich and beautiful: more important, it is inexplicable. It is to be experienced, not reported...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Sci-fiLight Years Away | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...snapped off my antenna while I was parked for a mere fifteen minutes in East Cambridge the other day. Before that someone backed into the front of the car while I was upstairs asleep. They wiped out a headlight and some other stuff. They rip my bumper stickers off my bumper if they don't like them And I rip off theist...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...with their Surveyor parts and the new collection of rocks. Conrad fell during the walk-the first fall by a human on the moon-but was quickly helped to his feet by Bean. "It was no big deal," Conrad assured NASA scientists, who had feared that a fall might rip an astronaut's space suit or vital life-support pack. In all, Conrad had spent 8 hr. 44 min. outside the LM. Before following Bean on board, Conrad singsonged: "Dum-de-de-dum-de-dum. Have I forgotten anything?" He had. A roll of color film, containing shots taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: BULL'S-EYE FOR THE INTREPID TRAVELERS | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...coffins on the big platform and I started to really concentrate. I tried to think about what this whole procedure had meant. We were told to rip the cards from the string around our necks. So I carried this card in my hand and stared at the coffin where I was to dispose of Tinsley Bryant...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The eyes have it The March Against Death | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...start, Ginsberg shows a flicker of humor-which is more than can be said for his actors. When Joe (Rip Torn) tells a masochistic nymph that "there are only two or three ways," she volunteers brightly: "I could talk to a friend on the phone while you're doing it to me." Joe mulls it over. "About what?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shrinking Shrink | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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