Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baily's Beads. Observers close to the path of totality who stretch a white sheet on the ground may see the mysterious shadow bands, which are somehow caused by irregularities in the earth's atmosphere. They appear as vague lines of light and dark, drifting roughly parallel. An amateur who uses simple apparatus (a yardstick to record their direction and estimate their dimensions) can observe them about as well as professional astronomers...
...shoes in an antiseptic solution to keep out infection. To protect the oryxes from unfamiliar thorns, all cacti except giant saguaros have been removed, and the thorns of the saguaros have been clipped to a height above the reach of an oryx. Every day the zoo fills out a sheet for each animal, listing weather, temperature, food and water consumed, bowel movements, breeding (none so far). The little world herd seems to be doing fine, although Caroline, the female from London, suffered at first from the Arizona heat. Edith may be pregnant, but it did not happen in Phoenix. Until...
...least two thicknesses of photographic film, fully exposed in daylight and overdeveloped, are needed to make a safe filter. The wiser witness will view the eclipse indirectly, with his back to the sun. This can be done by punching a hole with a pin or sharp pencil in a sheet of cardboard (which serves as a primitive camera) and observing the moon's progress on another sheet of white card a few feet away. The Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness recommends a sunscope built from a large cardboard box with a pinhole at one end, a paper...
Fellini's admitted moral dualism, in which his Roman Catholic upbringing wars with his present nihilism, comes into play. Eager to have an audience with an elderly cardinal, Mastroianni is led, like a sheet-wrapped Dante, down into a fumy inferno where the cardinal is stewing his skinny bones in a steam bath. Then, in a dream, Mastroianni sees himself as the black-cloaked master of a harem surrounded by all the women of his life, who adoringly bathe him, dry him, and carry him to dinner wrapped in a blanket...
...years ago near Cape Canaveral and has been experimenting with electrosensitive printing for several years. Its printer uses electronic impulses, not type, to form the characters. An 18-ft.-long monster, it looks like a cross between a filing cabinet and a press, eats up a continuous sheet of electrosensitive paper at a speed of 483 ft. per minute. The paper is drawn under a stationary set of 600 tiny needles-or styli-that are arranged in a 10-in. row. The computer standing near by sends electronic impulses to various styli, which then swiftly "burn" the characters into...