Word: sided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty of the camera work, the delicacy of the composition, but one can stare in dull amaze for only so long...
...group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference...
...evidence he cites the white area surrounding the black "Moscow Sea," observing that on the front side similar shading has usually marked rough areas...
Blaming the "smooth surface" theory on the lack of fine detail in the Lunik photograph, Menzel maintains that topographical features indicate the far side is "rougher, if anything...
...different theory is attributed to a prominent Soviet scientist, who feels that "the unseen side of the moon is considerably more monotonous than the side turned towards the earth." Several American astronomers share this opinion, which stems from a speculation that the earth's gravitational pull has distorted the near side...