Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essex; United Artists). Man stands at the edge of space like a child at the edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...
...purchase the boats was The Friends of Harvard Sail alumni group of former Univer after almost three years . Carter G. Ford '63, cap the Crimson sailing team, led drive to obtain a fleet...
Mounted on the sail, and pointed accurately at the center of the sun by a special set of eyes, are five of the 13 observing instruments that OSO carries. An X-ray spectrometer measures the wave length and strength of X rays coming from the sun. A photomultiplier tube looks for powerful gamma rays that are believed to come from electrons and positrons annihilating each other in the sun's churning gas. A dust counter watches the sun to find out whether microscopic dust particles are coming from its direction...
...Marin broke up the scene with bold black lines that are almost calligraphic. The mountains become a series of Ms; the harsh foreground is a powerful scribble. The right angle poised in the sky, while extending the mountainous skyline, also does a good deal more. It could symbolize a sail, a rainbow, or even the basic order lying beneath nature's turbulent surface. It is the first thing that catches the eye and is thus the gateway to the entire composition...
...Sail a Crooked Ship. The last movie made by the late Ernie Kovacs is a sort of shaggy seadog story in which Comedian Kovacs plays "a unsussessful crinimal" with a big cigar and a tiny brain...