Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science-fiction favorites ( Starship Troopers, The Foundation Trilogy. A Fall of Moondust, The Pupper Masters ) don't quite do it to me the way they did when I was twelve. Any kid who's read science-fiction knows the feeling I'm talking about: your brain stretches to the size of a galaxy and makes you all powerful!!! Hyperspace . . . Nova Bomb...
Selective Service emphasizes that the size of the draft call is contingent upon such factors as the number of deferments and exemptions and the size of American armed commitment, none of which are now calculable...
Just how much damage had been done? As Bing and his aides desperately juggled logistics, it seemed considerable, but far less than had appeared likely during the gloomiest weeks of struggle. Most of the star singers are available, but fitting them into an impromptu schedule will be a computer-size job. The delay has ruled out four fancy new productions: Herbert von Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne...
...industry grows up; Billy grows old. Sans hair, sans teeth, sans wives, sans everything, Billy Bright wanders from park bench to wheelchair replaying his memories to another burned-out star, Cockeye (Mickey Rooney). But Billy is no screen-size Pagliacci. Instead, he proves to be a garrulous embarrassment who keeps popping up on TV commercials and late-night talk shows. Audiences had thought him long dead; now they wish he were...
ARTISTS could not achieve the dazzling effects of color with any smaller canvases. Size intensifies color. You remember color in all its revelations-color dripping, blooming, floating, color that hurts your eyes, color from spring...