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...very French, shots ever put on the screen. Whenever the concerto's music flashes into Julie's mind, the screen is either swathed in blue or focused on some minute object. One striking example is the shot of a steaming cup of coffee which has overflowed into its accompanying saucer...
Most new keyboards start with the familiar qwerty key arrangement (named after the first six keys in the top left row of letters) and try to shape it into a more ergonomic form. A keyboard made by Kinesis Corp. in Bellevue, Washington, moves the keys into two saucer-size wells about a hand's width apart, relocating hard-to-reach function keys and providing more support for the wrists. The TONY! keyboard, designed by Anthony Hodges in Mountain View, California, is hinged in the middle, between g and h, so that the hands can meet the keys in a more...
...most of the declining industrial centers where blacks have seized control since the '60s, Atlanta is a thriving business and cultural powerhouse. When an ebullient young lawyer named Maynard Jackson became the first black mayor in 1974, the most prominent feature of the skyline was the Polaris, a flying saucer-like revolving restaurant atop the 24-floor Hyatt Regency Hotel. Today that landmark can scarcely be seen amid the towering hotels and office towers that have been built since Jackson broke the color line at city hall...
...admission brought an end to one of the most popular mysteries Britain -- and the world -- has witnessed in years. Flying saucers, out of vogue for some time, were given new life by the whorls. Saucer enthusiasts argued that the cropland patterns marked the landing spots of UFOs bearing visitors from space. Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces. The patterns spawned a kind of intellectual cottage industry: no fewer than 35 Britons claim to be experts on the phenomenon...
Elvis Presley could probably swing through parts of South Carolina in a flying saucer these days without anyone noticing. Everyone in the northwestern portion of the state is too busy trying to keep track of Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff...