Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bagful of tried and true comedy situations. Based on the long-run Broadway hit by Joshua Logan and the late Thomas Heggen, the film gains much from the CinemaScope opportunity to catch the horizon sweeps of the broad Pacific, the majestic overwater parade of a task force, and the sky-filling explosions of ocean dawns and sunsets...
Uniformed in sky blue and surrounded by a jackbooted, blue-coated honor guard, the Yugoslav dictator himself was at the airport to meet his guest. Roses, babies'-breath, gladioli and big white daisies were strewn in profusion as the two, accompanied by their retinues, drove in a Rolls' Royce to the palace where Nehru was to be billeted during his week's stay. All along the road, cheering Yugoslavs waved their own and India's flags...
Maria de Jesus Victoriano, a peasant woman of Carvalhinho, was on her way to the top of 2,800-ft. Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed...
Dancing in the Window. The company had only a month to do the whole work, got together for rehearsals 14 days before opening. The performance was a superlative success. Under the softly hazy sky of a summer evening in Paris, the dancers spilled and splashed across the stage and the wide staircases. A second-story window in the Louvre, on a level with the top layer of the stage, served both as Juliet's balcony and the entrance to the Capulets' palace. The three-level arrangement provided scope for graceful choreographic invention. In a pas de deux, George...
Miller discussed the drawings at his observatory, and visiting Cosmographer Fred Hoyle of Cambridge University, England had a bright idea. Maybe, suggested Hoyle, the large object in the drawings is the supernova* of A.D. 1054, the enormously brilliant "new" star that outshone all the other stars in the sky and was plainly visible in daytime. Europe was too backward in astronomy in 1054 to pay much scientific attention to the event, but Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it accurately. The supernova appeared over China on the morning of July 4, 1054, and its position was close to the bright star...