Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This hilarious, crazy film is titled The Bed Sitting Room (well, why not?) and marks Director Richard Lester's second act of total surrealistic aggression against the homicidal excesses of the military. Lester turned everything upside down and used the war-movie genre to satirize itself in How I Won the War, but The Bed Sitting Room, which is funnier and more tightly controlled, makes How I Won look like a warm-up exercise. There has been no director of such prodigious comic invention since the halcyon days of Preston Sturges. Lester throws off sight gags and visual puns...
...believed the information, but Nasser, who heard it independently, still had most of his planes on the ground on the fateful morning.) In Viet Nam, when an ARVN officer was suspected of duplicity, special buttons were secretly sewn onto his uniform: the top one contained a microphone, the second a transmitter, the third a battery; when his guilt was confirmed by the hidden equipment, he was perfunctorily executed (with no Green Beret-style aftermath...
Hokanson, a second-year MBA candidate and chairman of the Student Association, said last week that he telephoned United Press International, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Herald-Traveler to warn them about the "accuracy and validity" of the petition, which was signed by more than 500 MBA students...
...small motor moves the diffraction grating to examine any one of 10,000 different wavelengths or areas of the spectrum. A second motor keeps the telescope aimed at a single point, or else it shifts the entire telescope back and forth to scan small areas of the sun. It thus obtains a television picture in a particular type of ultra-violet light...
...same group of scientists maintains a laboratory to duplicate the sun's heat for a few millionths of a second. By studying gases' spectra on earth at these high temperatures (roughly 10,000 F.), they can interpret the sun's spectra detected by the Harvard telescope...