Word: sauceritis
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From their posts at Camp Barrett, two U.S. Marine sentries spotted a strange object and, in the best traditions of General Order No. 2 ("To observe everything that takes place within sight or hearing"), made their report to the Officer of the Day: a flying saucer had just landed near Quantico, Va., some 15 miles away. Marine spokesmen staunchly denied that 1) a Marine helicopter had flown to investigate and found nothing, 2) two platoons had been deployed to capture The Thing...
...could now remember well his walk two years ago down the cold tunnel into the Bowl as the Band swung into "Our Director"--the saucer-shaped bowl that gave Vag the uncomfortable sensation that he was watching the game from West Rock--the Blue flare some Yale freshman set off that smothered the Eli faus instead of the Crimson--the din when Hardy crashed into Molloy and Harvard went ahead 21-14--the sickening final minutes when Yale tied the ball game--the weird feeling Vag had driving to New York, not knowing whether to sing or Sulk...
...experiments seem destined not to replace realism, but to teach it new tricks. One of the paradoxes of photography is the fact that never does life seem more unreal than when the realistic camera comes closest to it: when Harold Edgerton photographed a drop of milk falling into a saucer, it came out looking like a crown, and when Edward Weston shot the heart of an artichoke, it looked like a modernistic abstraction...
Eyuboglu works best between midnight and 3 a.m.-"almost painting in my sleep." Lately he has busied himself with a variety of mediums: temperas, mosaics, and wood blocks for printing curtains and handkerchiefs. "The possibilities are limitless," he murmurs, absently dabbling a design in his coffee saucer. Business people are beginning to see the possibilities in Eyuboglu himself; negotiations are under way for a show of his art in Philadelphia, and the new Hilton Hotel being built in Istanbul will be decorated with Eyuboglu curtains...
...relaxation, the 200-odd delegates took in sightseeing tours and a weekend dinner-dance or rested their corporeal manifestations in the lobby and read "How It Feels to Die-by One Who Has!" in the latest Psychic Observer, or writings with a message, such as I Rode a Flying Saucer-the Mystery of the Flying Saucers Revealed Through George W. Van Tassel-Radioed to You by Other-World Intelligence in Reaction to Man's Destructive Action...