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...SCORPIO-The Scorpion...
...Greek word zodiakos means "pertaining to animals") is obscure. Only two of the zodiacal signs bear any visible relation to actual arrangements of stars in the sky. One is Gemini (the Twins), which consists of two principal bright stars (Castor and Pollux) of almost equal magnitude. The other is Scorpio, with a grouping of 15 stars reminiscent of the stinging tail of that dangerous insect, common in the Middle East...
...wild man of the movement and one of its most creative craftsmen. A fanatical occultist, he practices the blood rites of devil worship and has splashed the walls of his San Francisco pad with a Nazi banner and words written in blood. Anger's notorious Scorpio Rising is a jaggedly cubistic piece of black cinema that examines the big strong she-men who gun along with the cycle cult. The movie concludes with a satanic black-jacketed bacchanal that looks like the last stages of an amphetamine nightmare...
...Festival also screened a Russian film, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," which had taken the honors at the San Francisco Film Festival, arriving in New York with a hearty endorsement from Kenneth Anger, director of "Scorpio Rising." Like most Russian films, it was crude, old-fashioned, sentimental, and arty. But taking all that into account, it was really interesting, with good color, some nice free-form camerawork, and a lot of costumes and noisy Russian folk-music...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...