Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the more unusual suggestions are a 24 karat, gold-plated hard hat that can be engraved with the lucky owner's name and costs a mere $175. Or the book boats a single cup and saucer painted with a very abstract design by the Russian/French artist Kandinsky, which sells...
What lifts this film into orbit?and what saves it from being a shaggy flying-saucer story?is the breathless wonder that the director brings to every frame. Whether he is showing us a pristine, starry Midwestern sky or displaying Special Effects Wizard Douglas Trumbull's formidable arsenal of spaceships and celestial storms, Spielberg seems to be looking at everything onscreen as if for the first time. The freshness of his vision is contagious?and exhilarating. While most thrillers, including Jaws, manipulate the audience mechanically, Close Encounters makes it a partner in the film maker's quest for excitement...
After 30 years of reading about UFOs, says Trumbull, audiences have "a very abstract, mind's-eye view of what they expect to see in a flying saucer. It's a very religious kind of thing. For a film maker, it's like trying to show Jesus Christ or God. It's very hard to meet people's expectations...
...most famous anamorphic image in art is the smear of paint that tilts upward, like a dun-colored flying saucer, from the bottom of Hans Holbein's 1533 double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment...
...gather for a game, the world's largest beach party is under way, fueled by whisky and Gatorade. At the University of Georgia, wardrobes are planned for the slow stroll to seats behind the fabled hedges. Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters live up to their reputation as football's noisiest fans. At Ole Miss, when the band plays Dixie, massed Confederate flags in the student section wave frenziedly on cue, a blur of fluttering bunting...