Word: scans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impossible Four. Clearly, Scenarist Jules Feiffer and Director Nichols had more than facile satire in mind. Judging by FeifFer's acidulous cartoons and Nichols' previous work, they are men with considerable powers of observation. But in Carnal Knowledge, their vision is scan deep. Save at the beginning, men and women address one another and are treated as mere organs. Coupling is viewed with righteous distaste. Sex, though essentially joyless as practiced by these characters, must be followed by punishment. The film does glitter with explicit wit, but far too often it is reduced to attitudes posing as people...
Ever since they were beaten by the U.S. in the race to land men on the moon, the Russians have been proclaiming the importance of orbiting space stations-as platforms to survey the earth, to scan the heavens and eventually to launch manned excursions to the planets. In April the Soviets lofted Salyut, an impressive, 171-ton unmanned collection of scientific instruments (telescopes, spectrometers and other sensing equipment). But the odd, tubular-shaped laboratory, with its stubby, winglike solar panels, settled into such a low initial orbit that its lifetime was reckoned at only a few weeks. Ground controllers eventually...
...astronomy these days, the best results are often achieved by those who listen rather than look. The listeners are radio astronomers, whose vast antennas scan the skies for squawks, beeps and hums that tell them more about the universe than the eye can see. In the past decade, radio astronomers have made a host of discoveries: quasars, pulsars, free-floating molecules in the lonely reaches between the stars. They have even detected what may be a faint echo of the original Big Bang, the great explosion that some scientists think marked the creation of the stars and galaxies...
...units: tiny cutout images of anything from a banana to Richard Nixon's head, from a bamboo stockade to a pile of feces, drawn with tightly focused and quite deliberate clumsiness and fixed to the base by magnets. The profusion and inventiveness of these units is dazzling. To scan Firing Squad (1968), is like spinning the selector of a TV set past images that suggest disaster but can barely be read in time-cockroaches, a panther, a G.I. doll on skis, a Bobby Kennedy headline, a crucified Lyndon Johnson. The impulse of Fahlstrom's work seems...
...swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...