Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MASTER AND MARGARITA, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Satan saunters through Moscow in this manic farce, which, after 25 years of suppression, has again seen light in Russia and received two new translations...
When the firing finally stopped, after three hours and eleven minutes, Egypt had only one small oil refinery left-in Alexandria, 175 miles away. The two Suez plants were virtually demolished. Fireballs from exploding oil tanks could be seen 25 miles away, their light turning the desert night into vivid day for a radius of five miles around, their heat felt half a mile away. Egypt, its economy already in ruins as a result of the June war, had been dealt a staggering blow...
...were insulated and refrigerated against the 536° F. surface temperature, he might survive long enough to see both a sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted, by the dense atmosphere that...
Expo was the fair of films; a visitor could have spent the entire six months watching movies and still not have seen them all. Francis Thompson's We Are Young at the Canadian Pacific pavilion drew 2,500,000 viewers. Mixing live actors and film, the Czech pavilion's small, 150-seat theater managed to pack in 67,000 to see its Kino-automat, and almost 20,000 viewers fainted or grew queasy at Meditheater's visceral show. Live performers also did well. World Festival troupes played to an audience of 2,136,400. In all, fairgoers...
Monument that Floats. Judged by the Contemporary's first offerings, the answer would seem to be "a fair amount of confusion." The principal exhibit, "Pictures to be Read / Poetry to be Seen," focused on the works of twelve artists who employ both pictorial images and written words and ranged from the exquisite to the spectacularly shoddy. Among the most successful were the intricate lens constructions of Mary Bauermeister, the comic-book panels by Chicago's James Nutt, and the reconstruction of a 1964 Happening staged by Allan Kaprow, in which gallerygoers were invited to "make poetry, make news...