Word: sauceritis
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This film is somewhat ambiguous; for you cannot be sure whether it is comical or serious in its intent. It is certainly amusing when saucer-eyed Miss Davis rants, raves, and rollicks about her lavish apartment, tossing her long head of hair from left to right. Yet there seems to be a message beneath all the frivolity. The message is this: many of the people who get to the top on Broadway are rotten to the core. Their success is built on a foundation of selfishness and deceit...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
...read with great interest your Sept. 25 review of Frank Scully's new book on Flying Saucers ... I have seen neither a saucer nor an hallucination, but would gladly view either one that came into range...
TIME . . . deals rather facetiously with the subject of flying saucers, pooh-poohing all factual data which has made headlines previously. If the saucer operation is a military secret, why say anything about...
Scientifically, there is a related economy of energy to aerodynamics involved in the saucer; I refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...